What People Who Stutter Have Taught Me About Demons and Freedom

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Re: Question

From: Cindy Spillers
Date: 23 Oct 2006
Time: 10:33:44 -0500
Remote Name: 131.212.90.190

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Hi Kristen, Thanks for your question about how we teach people to have compassion for themselves. I don't know that this can be taught directly to somebody the way we teach stuttering management strategies, or reading, or math. In my experience, a person/clinician first needs to work on compassion for self before s/he can have compassion for others and help others have compassion for themselves. It's true that those of us who do not stutter don't know what stuttering feels like from the inside, yet we can still have compassion for and an understanding of what a client is going through because we draw on our own human experiences that have required us to face the same kinds of challenges that people who stutter must face. Those challenges are normal pieces of human existence, such as fear, letting go of dreams that will not come true, wanting a quick fix, going beyond what we thought our limits were, etc.


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