Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• coping mechanism: A psychological strategy used to manage stress or emotional distress.
• across from: Being on the other side
• sit with: To stay with someone and provide support or comfort.
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• be with: To accompany someone; to be in someone's presence.
• anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something that might happen, especially when the outcome is uncertain.
• perceive: To notice or become aware of something
• meditation: Act of deep and quiet thinking
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• empathy: Understanding how other people feel/suffer
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• trauma: A very severe or upsetting experience
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• urge: A strong desire for something
• aware: Knowing or feeling that something exists
• compassion: Feeling of wanting to help suffering people
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• sheer: To suddenly turn or change direction
• compassionate: Feeling sympathy for people who are suffering
• awareness: Having knowledge of something
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• cope: To deal with something in spite of difficulties
• myth: Popular belief that is false, unsupported by fact
• spike: The top point in a graph
• insight: Power to understand people and things very well
• mechanism: Part of a machine that performs a certain function
• predict: To guess or estimate what will or might happen
• paralysis: Inability to move or feel all or part of the body
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• therapist: Person skilled in a particular type of therapy
• radical: Person who believes in extreme political change
• precision: Performed in a very careful, detailed manner
• observe: To celebrate a particular holiday/religious event
• cortisol: Adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism
• resonate: (Of ideas) to have a big impact for a long time
• nervous: Concerning the system of nerves in the body
• eradicate: To remove or destroy something completely
• clarity: Being easy to be seen through, heard or understood
• sink: To push something down into the ground
• clinical: Concerning the treatment or observing patients
• analyze: To study carefully to find out the meaning of
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• raw: Being uncontrolled or strong, as your emotions
• goal: Something you try to do or achieve; an aim
• exhausting: To emit gas from the back of a car
• stomach: Place in the body where food is processed
• chemical: Basic substance produced by mixing elements
• assessment: Conclusion, opinion formed after due consideration
• analysis: Careful study to better understand something
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• act: To behave in a certain way
• detach: To send away a military unit on a special mission
• armor: Defensive (e.g. metal) covering for bodies, things
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• deep: Complex and important
• analytical: Thinking in a detailed and intelligent manner
• part: Division of a book
• spotlight: Lamp that produces a strong beam of light
• somatic: Of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
• typo: Mistake in printed matter
• superpower: State powerful enough to influence world events
• unfinished: Not yet ended; not complete; still being done