Say What You Like: revisiting a story and discovering ease

By Anita Freeman

Say What You Like, revisiting a family story and discovering ease is a hybrid memoir by Anita Freeman, a successful Nurse Practitioner and Therapist, that begins with a challenge taken on in childhood to fix herself as a stutterer, a rendered description she believes in. Telling the stories of her life, she directs this mission into an expanding consciousness using principles and practice of the Alexander Technique. Treatment to "overcome" stuttering while promising relief reinforces the conditions that promote it. Until she stumbled upon The Alexander Technique, Anita lived within the limits of this point of view. This memoir offers a contrast to current writing about stuttering and psychophysical change. More than repeating stories of early trauma and success in managing the symptoms, more than calling for societal reform to accept speech differences, this story offers a unique conceptual framework that places stuttering in a more promising context. Using the Alexander Technique, she uncovers a different approach to psychophysical change that disputes the current belief system about stuttering. Anita recognizes stuttering as a manifestation of a general misuse of the body-mind. By indirectly improving overall use, the Alexander Technique affects her entire organism and all movement, including speaking, creating a satisfying end to a family story.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C5P9LYN3
• ISBN13: 9798394899737
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"