Episode 260 features Sara Ayala, who hails from Houston, Texas. Sara is a Montessori teacher working with infants and toddlers. She is a member of the Houston Chapter of the NSA and recently attended her first National Stuttering Association conference.

Listen in as we discuss how freeing it felt for Sara to meet so many other people who stutter and how she immediately felt “she was home.” We also talked about how everything happens for a reason and unfolds the way it should.

Sara shares that for so long she had been operating from a state of fear and had been in hiding. She now feels she can own it, and even sees stuttering as an art form. Since returning from the conference, Sara has been socializing more than she ever has and has been trying to “reprogram her mind,” that she is young and it is OK for her to go out, socialize and have fun.

Sara says: “We live life based on what others think or say. If we can ignore that and just focus on living life, you’ll fall more in love with yourself.”