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John Sherman

John Sherman is a Kihei-based author and behavioral health presenter, and founder of Talk It Up Live It Up!, a personal-development framework built on autosuggestion and daily habit change. He holds a B.S. in psychology and an M.S. in counseling and addiction, and draws on his experience in substance use treatment as well as two decades coaching professionals and everyday people across Hawai'i.
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The Word That Almost Kept Me From Getting Help

Addiction inherited a vocabulary that treats every person in it as permanently incomplete — relapsing, remitting, never quite arriving.