If You Can Speak Better When Alone, This Cognitive Therapy Can Help You!
About Dr. Jeffrey Gurian
Dr. Gurian's Story
Dr. Gurian is not a speech therapist. He's a former Cosmetic Dentist and Clinical Prof. in Oral Medicine and Oro-Facial Pain, plus a 20 year Board member of The Assoc. for Spirituality and Psychotherapy who works with people all over the world to teach the cognitive behavioral therapy and related techniques he used to cure himself of a severe stutter.
He started stuttering at age 6 or 7 and when traditional speech therapy didn't help him, he was determined to help himself and find a cure.
He suffered with stuttering throughout his 20's and well beyond. And it makes him very sad that hardly anyone tells stutterers that they can get better. Maybe not everyone can be completely cured, but they can certainly get better.
The main criteria as far as he's concerned is whether you can speak better when you are alone than when you are trying to talk to someone else. If that is the case then your stuttering is situational, and you can't have a true disability based on your location or on who's in the room with you.
A man with a limp limps in every room of his house. He can not go into a room by himself and walk perfectly. But if you can speak better when you're alone, and say all the words you think are "hard" for you to say, then the truth is that there's nothing really wrong with you.
And anything you created with your mind you can also "uncreate."
Most stutterers have a very hard time saying their own name, He could never say "Gurian." To this day he never just introduces himself as "Jeffrey" he always says "Jeffrey Gurian" because he never wants to forget how hard it was for him to say his own name.
And now as one of the only doctors with a long-standing career in comedy, a best selling author, radio personality and a motivational speaker, you can see him online as well as in the video above, to hear how he speaks.
You can also see him in his many performances on TV, on radio and on stage where he does interviews and performs comedy, and often addresses his battle with stuttering, and how he finally completely overcame it.
He uses what he describes as a "body, mind, Spirit" approach very similar to the 12 Step programs to convince your sub-conscious mind that you no longr "need" to stutter.
For a free gift from Dr. Gurian with info on his journey to fluency, and a complimentary 15 minute Skype call during which he will tell you if he thinks he can help you, just click on this link and add your e-mail address to this page. You have nothing to lose except your ability to stutter!!!
https://mailchi.mp/jeffreygurian/healingyourheart
The Approach
Dr. Gurian advises potential patients to read about his techniques first on the web to see if it makes sense to them.
https://www.comedymatterstv.com/about/cure-for-stuttering/
This is a cognitive behavioral therapeutic approach, which means it's about thinking and learning how to change your thoughts, the very same thoughts that make you think you "need" to stutter and that there's something wrong with you, which isn't true.
It's critically important to him and to the success of the techniques that each thing, and the reasoning behind it makes sense to you.
He suggests that if you are interested in finding out more, you first send a detailed e-mail to him at jeffrey@jeffreygurian.com with information about yourself, including your age, where you are based, how long you've been stuttering, what type of work you do, ... especially if speaking or phone calls are involved, ... and what if anything you have tried in terms of treatment, and why you think it didn't work for you.
What To Expect
No one in health care can or should ever promise any particular results, and the same holds true for the treatment of stuttering. However on the link posted above and here again you can read some of the testimonials from people who have been helped.
https://www.comedymatterstv.com/about/cure-for-stuttering/
It's not easy to stop Stuttering especially if you've been doing it a long time and have been convinced that there's something wrong with you, which unfortunately is the way most stutterers feel.
The process involves convincing your subconscious mind, which is what created the "need" for you to stutter in the first place, that you no longer have any "need" to continue stuttering, and that process takes a different amount of time for each person.
It took Dr. Gurian years of self-treatment until he was ready to release himself from what he calls "the bondage of stuttering." But he had no one to help him. He had to do it all on his own, which makes it much harder and why he considers it "Grace" that he was able to figure it out.
He describes himself as being "obsessed" with stopping stuttering and that there was no other outcome he would accept.
He worked tirelessly day and night to create exercises, thoughts, and affirmations that would free him from his stutter.
Only another stutterer knows the pain and the humiliation that stutterers endure on a daily basis.
If you are willing to work hard on a daily basis, which should be easy to commit to if you are really tired of stuttering, and if you truly believe that you can stop stuttering, which is also critically important, then you can expect to improve and achieve a level of fluency commensurate with your efforts.
TESTIMONIAL-March 16, 2022
