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Re: More on Blocking & Attitude

From: Ellen-Marie Silverman
Date: 16 Oct 2009
Time: 19:58:50 -0500
Remote Name: 64.12.116.8

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[[I have been trying to take the advice of trusted friends and professionals who are encouraging me to feel the blocks as much as possible so I can figure out satisfactory management ]] Hello, Pam. Let's get down and dirty. It seems to me, as someone who only knows you through the posts and paper you have contributed to this and last year's ISAD Online Conference that, like most of us, you are a bit impatient. And, like many of us, you believe that if you can just reason a way through an unpleasant circumstance you can rid yourself of it. Well, changing a speaking behavior calls for patience and, as I mentioned, getting down and dirty. A willingness to experience the stutter --- the thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations associated with it --- i.e., to recognize, renounce the tendency to resits, to relax into it, and to resolve to keep doing so for as long as it takes has helped (as I wrote in a 2005 ISAD Conference paper, entitled, Shenpa, Stuttering, and Me)or some sort of variation of this very experiential, non-intellectual work can help. So, what else is new? You know the ropes, you just need to determine to apply them as consistently as you can. Best, Ellen-Marie


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