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Interoception Vocab

  • Julie Phelan PhD LPC
  • Oct 7, 2025
  • 1 min read

Updated: 1 day ago

Words that are used to describe inner body sensations. What'd I forget?

Achy

Airy

Alive

Bloated

Blocked

Breathless

Brittle

Bubbly

Burning

Buzzing

Chilled

Churning

Clammy

Clenched

Closed

Cold

Congested

Constricted

Cool

Cold

Cozy

Cramped

Damp

Dense

Dizzy

Dull

Elastic

Electric

Empty

Energized

Expanding

Faint

Flaccid

Floaty

Fluid

Flushed

Fluttery

Frantic

Frozen

Full

Fuzzy

Goose Bumpy

Gurgling

Hard

Heavy

Hot

Icy

Intense

Itchy

Jagged

Jerky

Jittery

Jumbly

Jumpy

Knotted

Light

Limp

Loose

Nauseous

Numb

Open

Paralyzed

Pins and needles

Pounding

Pressure

Prickly

Puffy

Pulled

Pulsing

Quaking

Quiet

Quivering

Radiating

Ragged

Raw

Rolling

Shaky

Sharp

Shimmering

Shivery

Shuddering

Silky

Smooth

Soft

Sore

Spacious

Spasming

Sticky

Stiff

Still

Stretchy

Stringy

Strong

Suffocating

Sweaty

Tender

Tense

Thick

Throbbing

Tickly

Tight

Tightness of skin

Tingling

Trembling

Twitchy

Vibration

Warm

Weak

Wobbly





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