Craig CoffeeI USED TO STUTTERGet the free book

A FREE BOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO STUTTER

STUTTERING
IS HELL.

How I Beat My Stutter and How I Remain Fluent.

By Craig Coffee, author of I Used to Stutter

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CRAIG COFFEEI've walked in your shoes, my friend.
Front cover of I Used to Stutter by Craig Coffee: a man looking across a mountain valley.

My name is Craig Coffee

What are my qualifications? My life. I used to stutter.
I walked the walk.

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I lived through the negative impact stuttering had on my social life, and my dating life, and my academic life, and my professional life. I cried myself to sleep. I asked God, why me.

WHY IT’S FREE

My book, I Used to Stutter, is free because it is the fulfillment of the promise I made when I was 14 years old in my parents' driveway.

PDF page 5, I Used to StutterThe promise I made at 14

I know what you experience because I lived through it too.

Sound familiar?

01

Can you relate to making a phone call and silently hoping they don't answer?

02

Do you think one of the worst feelings in the world is when you stutter or block on your name, and people laugh at you? People asking you if you forgot your name?

03

Have you ever been at a restaurant and ordered food that you could say, not what you actually wanted to eat?

04

Have you ever judged your day by how good or bad your speech was that day?

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“My name
is Craig.”

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For me, saying my name was the last thing I beat with my stutter, because it's the one that we have so much emotional deep attachment to.

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Hey, what's up, man? How you doing? Can I get a pour over coffee? For here, please. My name is Craig. Thank you very much.

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HOW I STARTED

I still stuttered badly, but it was slightly better.

When you're in that kind of pain, you'll take something that's slightly better.

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You see me now, but when I was working on my speech, I was not here.

I can shortcut the information, but there's no shortcuts in the amount of work required.

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Me and you: what I’m sharing

I am firm in concrete opinions of what it takes to become a man who used to stutter. Become the man who used to stutter. I'm one person. All of this stuff and these stories in my book worked for me. I have no idea if these tips, techniques, tips and tricks will work for you and your stutter. Stuttering is deeply personal, and everyone has different experiences, so what works for me might not work for you.

Front cover of I Used to Stutter by Craig Coffee: a man looking across a mountain valley.

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This book is me and you right here talking. There's no need for you and me to bullsh*t each other. I respect you too much to do that.

19The once-a-day challenge

THE PRACTICE IN REAL LIFE

What I advise, what I suggest, what worked for me in my life, was speaking to one stranger a day. Someone who worked in a store or something. I would go up and engage them with a question.

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10It's too early in the day to hate yourself

THE CONVERSATION IN YOUR HEAD

My first shift was moving from I hate myself, and all of those self talk feelings that people who stutter have, and being very hard on ourselves, into a neutral-ish statement. My statement was, I would move from the bad self talk into, it's too early in the day to hate yourself.

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16Shut up and listen

THE PERSON IN FRONT OF YOU

Staring at their mouth, it was a great crutch while I learned things. Then I learned how to look them in the eyes and talk. But the first thing I did was the mouth, because it got me away from thinking.

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WHY THE BOOK IS FREE

I made a promise.
I was 14.

I actually got tough love in the worst moment of my life when all I wanted was a hug. To be told it would be okay.

I promised God that if God would help me stop stuttering, I would dedicate the rest of my life to helping people who stutter become fluent.

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01How do I start a conversation when I stutter?02What is my Once-a-Day Challenge?03Do I ever stutter now?04Do I mean a cure when I say I beat my stutter?05How long did it take me to get the speech I wanted?06What can you get from me for free?

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Don’t let the
conversation
stop here.

I would have loved a big brother who had gone through this. It's as much about the fluency help as it is about the loneliness.

A daily email from
Craig Coffee.

It's a daily email from me to you. Encourages you along the way. While you work on your speech.

So you can always write me back.