October 2011
1 post
Balancing on the Edge of Acceptance
Hi Everyone,
I want to apologize, yet again, for not keeping up with this blog. A little less than a year ago, I told Bob, who manages and runs the masteringstuttering.com website, that I would no longer be writing the blog. However, today I went on the website to do some exploring and noticed the blog was still active. I decided I’d take that as an opportunity to write a little more. Maybe...
March 2011
1 post
The power of thought
I had an epiphany today regarding my speech. I realized that any action that should be unconscious, like breathing for example, gets screwed up and falters to some degree when we think of it…when we become conscious of it.
I think most people would argue that speaking is somewhat of an unconscious act. Sure, we need to think about what we are going to say, but the physical act of opening...
February 2011
1 post
Over a year, and a million words later
Hi Everyone,
I apologize for not keeping up with this blog. When I began it I was really excited about it and I sincerely believed I would be able to write on it regularly. It seems to be a talent of mine to take on more than I have enough time for in one day, and for that I apologize. But now I am graduating from college (finally, after taking time off) and I am diving head first into my speech...
August 2009
5 posts
A sentence..a thought.. and even a book!
Good Morning,
I don’t know how many people are even reading this blog since I only began it 2 days ago, but I’m wondering-
How many of you who stutter notice that your stutter is minimal (or your speech is more fluent) when you’re very busy in life? I know with me, when I have a ton going on between school, work, and just simply life, my stutter is almost non existant. When I...
Under a little construction..
Hey Everyone,
Sorry if you’ve noticed my page has changed colors and formats about 70 times in the past day. I’ve been playing around with it in my spare time. This IS the format that will stay- I’ll just be changing around fonts/colors/etc. So please bare with me!
Have a nice night!
Jen
Heres something to ponder...
Why is it that we know that something like Shy Bladder Syndrome is essentially psychological??
The person with the disorder associates urinating in public with anxiety/fear.
They can probably urinate at home just fine. They can most likely urinate in an empty public restroom alone (I do not know this for fact- so if I am wrong please correct me). Although when people are around their bladder...
The Hating Begins
I decided to create a Facebook Group for the Neuro Semantics of Stuttering. I am already a part of a Yahoo group on it- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/neurosemanticsofstuttering/
(thats how this whole idea to spread the word etc got started) and its really helped me. I figured, so many people use facebook that there should be a group on there as well.
I was already a part of a few stuttering...
We actually CAN talk
Have you ever watched a movie and one of the characters stutters? Everyone laughs, maybe says a few names (Ever heard of stuttering stanley?), and soon, they forget about it.
Have you ever actually thought that these specific movie characters could portray the lives of real people? Its true. I am one of the millions of people who stutter. It is sort of funny to me how many misconceptions there...