Healing a Lifelong Stutter Through Surrender

Summary

A Canadian lawyer struggled with a severe stuttering problem since childhood, having undergone extensive group and one-on-one speech therapy at Children's Hospital and as an adult, unable to complete sentences without getting stuck on plosive sounds (T, C, S, Z), which limited his career choices and made him avoid litigation and public speaking. At his first week-long retreat during a lying meditation focused on energy centers, he discovered he couldn't move any energy to his throat center, and during a subsequent walking meditation realized his stutter was related to a lack of connectedness with others - expanding his heart and knowing he was already healed, not needing to call that possibility to him. The healing lasted 6 months before slowly returning, then at a second week-long retreat a year later, he surrendered to wholeness during a lying meditation, felt heat and tightness in his throat that released, and healed himself again permanently.