HOW TO STOP STUTTERING & LOVE SPEAKING: EXPANDS ALL EDITIONS of "Stuttering & Anxiety Self-Cures" Paperback – September 7, 2021

I've stuttered for about 20 years. It has varied a lot based on the situation in which I'm speaking. I never really understood why I could read a whole book fluently when alone, but the moment someone else entered the room, I would be unable to continue. Most speech therapies I tried (and I tried quite a few top programs) largely ignored this fact. They taught that stuttering was incurable (despite it magically being "cured" when I was alone) and emphasised management tools over tackling the psychological, anxiety based root of the problem.Most therapies also focused on speaking techniques that sounded weird. I would rarely actually use them, because it almost seemed more socially acceptable to stutter than adopt a wholly unnatural manner of speaking.This book is the first therapy program I have found which:1. IS MADE BY EX-STUTTERERS WHO UNDERSTAND THE CHALLENGES WE FACE AND PROVE THAT IT WORKS. Imagine for a moment that you had an entire life to test out different methods to stop stuttering, and then wrote those methods down. That's what this is. You have the advantage of the author's entire life experience (AND HE STOPPED STUTTERING). Also, in this new edition, he shares real stories about how these methods worked with people he coached.2. Takes into account the psychological factors of stuttering and helps you increase your comfort zones so that everywhere you speak will eventually feel like reading alone.3. Provides you with speech tricks (called crutches in the book) which will allow you to reduce stuttering incidents on day one. AND YOU DON'T NEED TO USE THEM FOREVER. Just until to retrain your brain not to stutter.4. (Perhaps the most important) Is supplemented by a very active online community and existing video library showcasing the methods the book describes. (See World Stop Stuttering Organization)In my opinion, this is the most effective speech program available today, and the ONLY one with hundreds of proven cases that the people following it actually stopped stuttering. It's a small small fraction of the cost of a single session with a speech therapist, and is in my opinion much more effective.If you really want to stop stuttering, I highly recommend you read it!

A Book That Is Saving LivesIt is general knowledge that many stutterers are shy and reclusive, often living in abject despair. As the author has said, “Many of my stutter-mates have written to me about having no hope for a normal life and of their suicidal thoughts. Until now, there has been no hope for these sufferers. This book (and the author’s predecessor books on point) have changed that by showing a path fluency that works.I love this book, because it is beautifully written, and I have seen firsthand that its methods work. On some of the author’s websites and in some of his 1,000+ coaching videos, I have seen, watched and studied the faces of readers (the author’s students) who are applying the teachings in this book and I have personally observed how they have stopped stuttering and turned their lives around, and, justifiably, many of them have praised this book, its methods and/or the author as “life savers”. I have read and/or heard such positives and more from those ex-stutterers, all of which corroborate what is in this book.This book covers all of the materials in the author’s prior books, all of which have been reviewed with the most lavish praise, but this book does much more: It updates and expands his prior works and makes his methods ever so much easier to follow. Every detail of his methods is explained clearly and compellingly. The author reveals what he and his team of coaches (his ex-stuttering students) have learned from some 2,000 hours of coaching PWS in the past six years alone – resulting in a massive body of research (with incredibly positive results that boggle the mind. This author’s “science” does not come from the ivy covered walls of an insulated academia, but, rather, from the trenches in which stutterers struggle to survive. His methods work in the REAL world.It is so sad that the medical community, in general, still maintains that stuttering is “an incurable disorder” and holds that it must be “accepted”. Why is that? As the author notes, according to his communications with hundreds of PWS, 90% of speech therapists never stuttered and the remaining 10% still stutter. As the author asks, “Would you take golf lessons from someone who has never been on a golf course or who shoots 100 strokes over par?” Clearly, the medical community lacks the empirical data to know whether stuttering can be stopped or not. As the author says, “Stuttering remains an eternal mystery to those who have not stuttered and beaten it. Only stutterers can truly understand stuttering.” The author and his ex-stuttering students DID stutter but no longer do, and they have not relapsed in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and even 40+ years.The proof lies in the proverbial pudding. Seeing is believing, and I have seen that proof up close. The methods in this book (both in logic and in case-after-case) leave no reasonable doubt that stuttering is stoppable in most cases. (The author estimates that 90% of stutterers can stop stuttering.) This book provides a clear, convincing road map to fluency for stutterers.The ripple effect of this book and the success stories flowing therefrom is staggering. Literally, the lives of the stutterer, their’ families, their friends, their co-workers and countless strangers’, are being elevated.The book also provides many life-lessons for stutterers. It quotes psychiatrists, neuroscientists and M.D.’s as it discusses the mind’s neuroplasticity and the mind’s ability to be re-shaped through mind-training, which enables the stutterer to convert stuttering into a blessing.Also exciting, as the book explains, the author and his ex-stuttering students (who continue to coach as many as they can) are forming the world’s only community of ex-stutterers to help still more speech sufferers. If you stutter, you’ll want to learn about this community, its support groups and how it can help you.This book is a beacon and monument to fluency. I believe that it will be read for many, many decades to come. For stutterers, it well may never be topped.LELAND/WASHINGTON, DC