Vocabulary

• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• show up: To arrive or be seen at a place, e.g. a party
• shut down: To close an operating system, e.g. on a computer
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• tense up: To become nervous or anxious; to tighten one's muscles due to stress or fear.
• to let: Indicates that a property is available for rent.
• overwhelmed: To defeat something or someone completely
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
• vulnerability: Being weak and able to be easily hurt or damaged
• intimacy: The sharing of private and personal things
• trauma: A very severe or upsetting experience
• journey: Act of traveling from one place to another; trip
• crave: To have a very strong desire for something
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• presence: The same place or area that a person is
• compassion: Feeling of wanting to help suffering people
• chaos: State of utter confusion or disorder
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• chaotic: Utterly confused
• explore: To examine something in detail to learn about it
• grief: Feeling of great sadness because someone has died
• calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
• insight: Power to understand people and things very well
• tense: The use of grammar to state the time things happen
• sabotage: To destroy or damage, often secretly, to weaken
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• neglect: Act of failing to do something important, required
• require: To demand that someone does something
• messy: Being complex or difficult to fix
• anticipate: To expect or look ahead to something positively
• witness: To see the signing of an official document
• resonate: (Of ideas) to have a big impact for a long time
• household: Being in everyday use; common
• intelligent: Smart; able to think and reason
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• clarity: Being easy to be seen through, heard or understood
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• courage: Quality of being able to face danger without fear
• shame: Feeling of guilt because you did something wrong
• analyze: To study carefully to find out the meaning of
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• abusive: Saying or doing bad or cruel things to others
• raw: Being uncontrolled or strong, as your emotions
• criticize: To assess the work of others
• heal: To recover from or forget a bad experience
• expose: To make visible, without covering or protection
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• regulation: Act of controlling something with rules or orders
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• fully: Completely or entirely
• blur: To make something unclear or out of focus
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• afraid: Worried that something bad will happen; scared
• fortress: Military buildings providing protection
• hide: To go to, or put a thing where it can't be found
• repression: Psych act of restricting or holding back emotions
• bypass: To go around something; avoid
• detachment: Feeling of not being personally involved
• grieve: To feel great sadness, as when someone dies
• unfinished: Not yet ended; not complete; still being done
• dissociation: Separation of one part of your life from others