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 |