So, another fruitful Sunday and the story goes on……The pune self help group met on Sunday, the 18th April at our standard meeting place. The meetingwas attended by around 9-10 people. I am glad to say that now that’s the average count in theSunday meetings and lot of ideas pouring in from the ignited minds. […]
This week we decided to meet on Saturday evening. This time, the meeting was attended by, after a long long gap, Stanley! Rahul and Stanley were meeting for the first time. So we had a brief introduction to start with. Then we found a place to sit, and got started with our discussions. Two things […]
Sharmaofying or Haklaofying…former or the latter..is for us to decide…i always dreaded the words like haklu, haklaofying and all…stuttering and stammering were still fine but not the hindi synonyms which sound very rude. just a few months back i used to keep my words with me, not sharing anything 😛 though my heart saying..c’mon u […]
Bangalore SHG met on 11-Apr-2010 after a gap of two weeks. The meeting had to be cancelled in the last two weeks due to non availability of the members. This week, I got the confirmation from Pramod, Aashish and Tanoy and I reached Cubbon Park by 10 AM. I was joined by Pramod by 10.15 […]
I work for an IT MNC, and staying in Pune for the past four years. Running a marathon is not something that we folks do quite often. That is why I jumped at the thought when such an advert was published in our company’s notice board. When the registrations were being accepted at my office, […]
The Pune SHG met on 11 April 14, 2010 at the same meeting place in the morning. It was nice to see the increase in the strength of the people this weekend. We had around 10 people in this meeting. As we were about to start the meeting we came to know that Nikhil’s uncle […]
Shame and embarrassment needs to be conquered to have total acceptance of ourselves with our stammering. How total acceptance of stammering will come if we are not open towards our stammering? The acceptance needs to be achieved at physical and emotional levels. Behaviours like looking down, substituting words or avoidance needs to be stopped if […]
Rahul and I met again today. For a long time now, our SHG meetings are held just between two of us. Taking a few lessons from the workshops, and other SHGs, today I had come for the meeting with a few things planned. Rahul turned up a few minutes later. He had a spark in […]
Years ago, during my college days, I was in a phase where my stammering ‘iceberg’ was growing deep down… Acceptance was unknown then. And writing did give me a vent. But writing about stammering upfront? That was something I couldn’t have ever imagined that time. So, I decided to pen down a poem, which symbolizes […]
It might be little late to post this, but I have heard ‘better late than never’ and JPs Motivation so let me do this. Well….We all met on 4 April 2010 at our regular meet up place, but timing has changed from the past week, i.e. 10 am in the morning. We all came fresh […]
We started at around 6:20 AM, and started jogging. Jogging by definition should have such a speed where you can easily converse with a fellow runner. After a couple of rounds, Sanjeet and Sachin stopped. I for being younger was made to run a couple of rounds more. I obliged happily. After few minutes, Vivek […]
After discussing Shehaan’s stuttering iceberg with Keith and thinking about whether its really a stuttering or a communication iceberg, I also feel like extending this to avoidance. Yes we should work on avoiding all avoidance but then are all avoidance stammering related? Don’t we avoid to speak many a times despite the fact that we […]
Hi All, thanks for all your kind words…. We started the day early today at 6:00 AM, instead of starting at 6:30 AM. We skipped our daily tea, but the freshness in morning air pretty much made up for it. We jogged initially and later sprinted. After which we did some stretches and pull-ups. I […]
March has just gone.SO much hectic schedule & pile of work to be complete!!Always in march when year ends,all the people starts working on & on.That day on sunday I came to office for my pending year end work & for audit issue.After seeting in the office for 5 hours,I decided to take break & […]
we started of the day by getting up early. We did some karate kicks, blocks and punches. For once, Sachin sir took a back seat and each one of us got a chance to preach different types of breathng and meditation techniques. we also did an interesting excercise of thanking God for all the things […]
Early Morning session:JoggingYoga SessionMeditation we started off with jogging so that we breathe maximum fresh air and become active for the rest of the day. we tried and tested the various yoga postures and felt relaxed. Each one of us presented their opinion about the same. We practiced meditation. We also did belly breathing and […]
Pune SHG met on March 28th, 2010. We have changed our timings to morning (10 a.m. to 1 p.m.) and boy!, it feels great to meet in the morning, all fresh and charged up and also we get time to spend with our family members and friends on Sunday evenings.We started the meeting without focusing […]
WIth the novel hope to be very comfortable in speaking, we, the group of 7 members, began with Yoga and Meditation to be relaxed to ensure that we take proper breathe to speak. Further, the movie, “Unspeakable.” reminded us that we are not the only people who stutter, so it is certain that all over […]
What can be the relation between IPL and stammering; not even the best of spin doctors can conjure up one. Right? Wrong, here is one – Rajsthan Royals have been my favorite team since this IPL jamboree began; and one man is responsible for it – Shane Warne – the greatest ever leg-spinner. The man […]
Hi Team, Last six months have been very eventful for me. In October’ 09, I lost my father; and it took me considerable time to come to terms with that, Then I was very busy with my office work. And once things began to look like returning to normal, my brother-in-law had an accident. Thankfully […]