Events, stories, insights, thoughts about how accepting that we stammer is the first step towards transcendence. The broader philosophy: acceptance of life, diversity, disability etc.
Dear Friends, Stammering Awareness is one of the core areas of TISA. If stammerers don’t talk about stammering, who will? In the view of above, TISA announces the Stammering Awareness Week. The TISA Stammering Awareness week will be celebrated every year from 13th April – 20th April. 13th April, because this is the day when […]
Bhopal tisa workshop was my first tisa workshop..I really enjoyed the whole workshop and every activity of workshop..whole workshop was above my expectations… I learned the basic meaning of acceptance and other exercises to control stammering… Before this workshop I was hiding my stammering problem every time ,but after attending this workshop I have learnt […]
Today I went to a medical store nearby my home to buy medicine for my mother, as she was suffering from toothache for the past few days. When I reached the store I tried to ask the man at the counter- “Bha……………………………………”. I was just trying to say “BHAYA THODA DAATH DARD KI DAVA DE […]
Hello Friends! This is Kumar Kundan from Bihar. I live in Delhi, working in Delhi Metro as JE. Having known to what to do with my stammering ,at least where to begin and to continue practicing the techniques such as bouncing, voluntary stammering, and not having any immediate expectations in terms of result , yet […]
(Received from Dr Tejpal, Chandigarh) In a recently concluded National TISA Conference at Chandigarh, Anapana meditation was taught by Vipassana Teacher. Anapana meditation is a preliminary step of Vipassana meditation, which is widely practised by students in schools and by adults by jail staff and prisoners in many prisons all over India and abroad. Many […]
Last week i told you that i had gone to SHG with a friend. Here i am writing her experience of SHG. “So my friend was going to this place for some SHG session for stammerers. I thought of accompanying him. Never had I imagined it could leave such an imprint in my heart. It […]
Today we had our quality management meeting in our company. All of us gathered in the conference room. Roughly around 30 new trainees were there including me. The quality manager came and started the presentation. He started asking questions to all of us along with introduction. I became very uneasy sensing that my turn would […]
Sweetest are those victories that humbles FEAR. Every pws is acutely aware of that heaviness in the chest, the sweaty palms, the nauseating feel of absolute terror, when called upon to speak in front of a crowd. For years I have submitted to fear, often using great ingenuity to escape unhurt. Cowardly! No doubt about […]
“Its not too easy to surpass the champion but still if you have faith in your skill and you know your inner freedom then everything is possible” I have started playing table tennis 2.5 years back and after putting my consistent effort to learn table tennis, I have reached to the level that I can play […]
Finally we organised our 3rd Google hangout meeting . We are 4 members in that meeting – 1. Lokendra 2. Rahul 3. Naresh 4. Bhupendra While our guests are – * Satyendra Shrivastav sir * Vishal Gupta sir The theme of our meeting is Indian independence. We started with introduction round . After that we […]
Yesterday I went for the play – http://stammer.in/2017/07/13/an-evening-with-stories-26th-27th-july2017-atta-galattabangalore/ I reached the venue good 30 mins before the performance.. I had taken my wife and kids along.. only kids above 12 are allowed in plays. Anyways my kids were allowed! All is well and OK when our own people are involved in the logistics! 😉 Rashmi […]
This has been some of my experience and those of my mates who have candidly shared in shg meetings that I attended in last few years.. Because of stammering, I failed in Interview. Because of stammering, I was not promoted. Because of stammering, I could not give the presentation Because of stammering, I could not find […]
As by profession I have to meet the doctors as per their timings and days for collecting the insights related to pharma products .And it’s field work job ,so sometimes we have to think where to sit if their is time in between doctors call (meeting a doctor is we sat call ) . Just […]
Dear friends, The shocking news of the loss of our dear friend Dr. Akash Acharya arrived yesterday. I confess that my eyes teared up and I have needed more than an entire day to calm myself. It is my hope that this note will help us all -in some small way, at the least. Akash […]
Ego is bad for people. Sounds clichéd?? Well, It’s more so for pws. The singular factor that can ease the life of a pws is – Confidence. It is when the mind and heart are in unison, without fear, that words flow unhindered. For a pws like me, (teacher with stammering) with nowhere to hide, […]
Life is a roller-coaster ride, they say. So is it, for me. Heaving up in joy on days of “easy talk” and tumbling down in anguish on days of “blocked talk”. Life! Right now, I am in a period of relapse. After progress made with tireless toil, I am sliding down. The quiver of lips […]
Hello, I am Binu and I am a stutterer. Hmm … That felt funny. Even though I know for a fact that my personality, my thoughts, my choices have been mainly influenced by the dreaded stammering, this is probably the first time in my life that I have introduced myself as a “stutterer”. It was always […]
Hello friends , hope all of you are fine and doing well in your life. I am writing after long time approximately 1 month . In this one month , i got some amazing ideas about how to live more freely and happily . The secret of happiness which i found in last one month […]
“When the time is right, everything falls into place,” my life at this moment echoes this sentiment. A couple of days ago, as usual, I prepared the content of a presentation but allowed my collegeue to present it because I was terrified that I would stammer. This incident awakened the guilt in me that I […]
Sir, This is Vimal… Remember? I met you in that workshop? As I climbed this little trail uphill, near Kotabagh (Haldwani), after a 300 km drive, my first reaction to this phone call was a little irritation (Why cant people just email me?) – but then, it is always fun to catch up with old workshop […]