Stuttering & Anxiety Self-Cures: What 1000+ Stutterers Taught Me 2nd Edition

I’m Zak, at the age of five I had a speech disability. For eight years I stuttered. Nothing ever helped me overcome stuttering. I was told to live with it. Little really helped, I was told to elongate my words. Nothing helped me speak like a normal person. I’m thirteen now, stuttering has taken over my life.Last summer, my father bought me Lee’s third edition of his Stuttering & Anxiety Self-Cures. This book is the reason why I am going to overcome stuttering. It is chock full of useful information, it’s just that I had to be committed to stop stuttering.After I read the book my father came in contact with Lee Lovett, the author of Stuttering & Anxiety Self-Cures. Lee told me to go to SAA and SAC. I watched all of the lesson videos there. I learned about the crutches and mind training. There were thirteen crutches, all helping me speak like a normal person. But, I had to be committed to beating stuttering if the crutches were going to work. At the beginning of this summer, I began Skyping with Lee. As of the time of writing this I am still Skyping with Lee. Lee talked about how stuttering is a bad habit, and habits can be unlearned. He told me how you need to hear fluency and not disfluency to beat stuttering. I am very glad I did Skyping with Lee. Lee also talked about life lessons and mind training.Lee is such an amazing person, for him to spend a good chunk of his life helping hundreds of people beat stuttering is incredible. And to think I get the chance to be taught by such a great guy. Even with one month (as the time of writing this) of Skypes with Lee I’ve seen a huge improvement. Being in control of your thoughts and accepting that everything you do comes from deliberate choices.In Stuttering & Anxiety Self-Cures Lee talks about “crutches”. Crutches are little ways to help prevent stuttering. For example crutch seven is to whisper or crutch one, skip the first letter or syllable. Also reading aloud in section 4.5. Reading aloud with enthusiasm helps beat stuttering. I read three hours aloud everyday over the summer break. Lee talks about mind training or affirmations. Every morning and night I repeat a set of affirmations twenty times each. At the end of any lesson on SAC Lee says one thing: “If I can say one word anywhere any time, then I can say any word anywhere any time”.The book is excellent in giving us a roadmap to stop stuttering for the long term, with most likely no relapse, which is important to beating the habit of stuttering. The book explains that stuttering is an unconscious choice we make, and that it is our choice to stop stuttering, if we put enough effort into beating it. All you need is to be committed to stop the habit of stuttering. You need to have persistence to beat it. I have a very long way to go on my path of freedom from the habit, I have everything I need to beat it. I’m confident I have the tools to become a PWSS - people who stopped stuttered.

Lee's book has been incredibly helpful! I have been stuttering mildly for the past 24 years, tried different therapists and read different books without much success and Lee's book helped me make my first stutter-free public presentation two weeks ago! Presentations from me are usually disasters but this time was different and two persons from the audience talked to me after the presentation to tell me it was the best talk they heard this year. I could not believe it, I was so happy.So what's so special about Lee's methods? Lee does not believe in controlling our speech, which was what most of methods suggest. Lee believes in creating fluency memories so that our brain can get used to speaking instantaneously, which means without planning words. Lee believes that we should think about the ideas and not the words we want to say, just like we think about where we want to go and not about which leg we will move next. Once we no longer plan words but just let a brain full of fluency memories speak, it is way easier to speak fluently.How can we create fluency memories? The main way is reading aloud 1 hour every day and other techniques such as auto-suggestions and self-hypnosis also help. Another important advice during the transition from stutterer to self-cured is to reduce the stuttering memories. To do so, Lee suggests twelve techniques (called crutches) to avoid stuttering on feared words. One technique is voice modulation and another technique is skipping the first letter of the next feared word. This helps reducing stuttering memories until we hopefully become self-cured.After finishing the book, I was impressed by its content and I decided to write to Lee. He replied and offered to Skype with me. I had two Skype sessions with him and his energy, help and advice have been incredible. He is incredibly motivated to help stutterers self-cure and is doing it for free! He helped dozens of stutterers self-cured and if you stutter, reading this book and practicing Lee's methods every day for at least a few months is probably the best gift you can offer yourself. I have started Lee's methods last month and I am not 100% self-cured but I regularly have stutter-free conversations and everyone noticed that my speech has greatly improved. I am still working on it and hope to become self-cured in a few months.

I’m only about halfway through and it’s already helping me more than anything else has in over 20 years.Get it, trust that it will work, and God-willing it will change your life as it is changing mine.

I have been stuttering my whole life. I really like Lee's book because it gives an easy plan to follow to finally get in control of our speech and become fluent. The first thing is to prove ourselves that we can be fluent, mainly using some "crutches" (speaking techniques explained in the book) when needed so that we can reprogram our brain. The second thing is mind training, we need to reduce the social anxiety related to speaking in order to become fully cured and the same techniques can later be used to address other problems in our life. The third thing is to learn to love to speak, this takes time but Lee's is the living proof that it can be definitely achieved. So if you stutter, you NEED to buy this book!

This book has helped me a lot to beat Satan Stuttering, as he describes it. The techniques are simple, but we need to have commitment to achieve fluency.After reading some books in the past, this is by far the most complete and best for me. Mostly because Lee was a PWS (Person Who Stutters) and he has achieved fluency using the methods described in this book.I now look for skyping with Lee to improve my speech even more. Everyone who wants to beat stuttering must read this book.

If you are a stutterer, you MUST read this book. It is amazing, simply written and based on logic. The writer has been able to self-cure from stuttering many, many years ago and has shared so much valuable information on how WE can also do it.If you follow his recommendations, and if you really, REALLY want to get rid of stuttering, you WILL do it.I have been stuttering all my life, and after reading the book (and while reading it) I started practicing the inside recommendations, and 1 month after that, i am 95% stutter-free. I must say, however, that I was never a sever stutter, but someone who repeats about 30% of the words and rarely blocks. But, in some situations I was also becoming severe.I am totally recommending this book, as now not only I have the tools to completely stop stutter, but also I KNOW why stuttering is happening in my mind and how fluent people talk. Thank you, Lee Lovett!

Hi Everyone I am myself an Ex-stutterer and I cured myself with few months of practice and this june 2020 I became a person who stopped stuttering. I understand that this stuttering problem can make living each day of life like a hell. If not addressed properly it can become a roadblock to ones success. Most of the times things gets overwhelming for us & during which we may get depressed & question our worth "is that all I deserve?". A Person who stutters has to compromise on lots of opportunities which is quite frustating. But Hey folks, Dont you ever worry as its not the end of the world! "Where there is a will there is a way" as goes the saying, & Stuttering is not that big problem and can be cured our brain is amazing as we can train it to our advantage. At any point if you feel that your life will never change or you cannot excel in life if you have this stuttering issue. All you need is, to read Lee's book very well & to start working on the issue head-on, The whole concept of this book revolves on the basis of scientific studies of neuroplasticity which is proof that your brain is malleable and you can shape your working of brain no matter what your age is or how deeply a bad habit is ingrained in your brain. This book opens the doors for all stutterers to transform into the best version of himself/herself & would enable one to live life to the fullest. All this requires patience, dedicated hardwork, consistency and positive outlook towards yourself and the whole world. I highly recommend this book to stutterers, ex-stutterers, persons having relation with stutterer!!. Please don't hesitate to buy it if you are suffering from this problem, even if it doent work out for you, you will learn many things to improve your personality for sure.But for the most of people, It 100% worth the money and time you would give & it if you are truly willing to follow the steps written in it & put 100% efforts (Transformation doesnt come easy my friends). I hope each & eveyone of you reading this cure this impediment totally, overcome by killing the fear and become a fluent speaker you have always dreamed of becoming. I am sure the day is not be far when Lee's methods will make you the best public speaker of his or her group. Turn this stuttering curse to a blessing by helping yourself. May the god be always with you!