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From: Emily
Date: 21 Oct 2008
Time: 09:49:43 -0500
Remote Name: 24.179.146.42
First and foremost, I just want to say that your paper was amazing. I think any reader, not just people who stutter, can truly take away a message of motivation. You make so many eloquent points throughout your paper that it is hard to read this and not want to incorporate this sense of Self in my own life. I am not a person who stutters, but I am a graduate student and one day will have fluency clients, among others, and I often wonder “How will I be able to ask them to examine their inner selves and become comfortable with their stutter?” I think your work may be it! You spoke about be tired of living as someone else; seeing darkness when you meditate versus light; carrying on and all will be fine; turning one’s awareness inward and bringing about acceptance of self; and accepting your Self beyond fluency and disfluency; but how do you explain these concepts to your client if they are from another culture? I feel many people in our culture (U.S) worry too much about everything; why can’t we carry on and accept the fact that everything will be fine? Where does our fear come from and why are we so afraid to confront it? These are questions that only we can answer for ourselves but it gets me thinking about how we as clinicians can relate to our clients and give them tools other than “therapy” to help them cope with their inner self.