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What are the determinants of health

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Stress, bodies and illness 
Income and income distribution 
Education 
Unemployment and job security 
Employment and working conditions 
Early childhood development 
Food insecurity 
Housing 
social exclusion 
Social safety net 
Health care services 
Aboriginal status 
Gender
Race 
Disability
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Mortality

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Death rate

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Morbidity

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Illness rate

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Health

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Constantly changing process trying achieve individual potential in the physical, social, intellectual, occupational, emotional, environmental, and social dimensions.

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Wellness

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Every changing process in which a person attempts to reach his or her potential in each of health’s components

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Physical health

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Physical characteristics and daily living. You just make good choices regarding physical activity, sleep, alcohol, tobacco use, and health care

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Social health

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Capacity for satisfying interpersonal relationships, interacting with others. Work at becoming a better communicator, both listener and speaker

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Intellectual health

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Ability to think clearly, reason objectively, analyze critically. Learn from Success and failure, think before you act and manage time well

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Occupational health

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Satisfaction a person gets from his or her career or stage of career development. Finding balance between work and leisure.

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Emotional health

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Feeing or emotional component of health. Feelings of self esteem, self confidence, self efficacy, trust, love.

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Environmental health

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Deepest or innermost part of you. Provides meaning, purpose, transcendence, connectedness and energy to your life.

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Health promotion

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Various efforts aimed at encouraging individuals and communities to make healthier choices

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Primary prevention

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Actions designed to reduce the chances of a health issue arising, or to delay the age at which it occurs

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Secondary prevention

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Intervention early in the development of a health problem to reduce symptoms or to half or delay its progression

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Tertiary prevention

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Treatment or rehabilitation efforts aimed at limiting the effects of a disease

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Predisposing factors

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Life experiences, knowledge, cultural and ethnic inheritance, and current beliefs that are likely to lead to particular behaviour

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Enabling factors

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Skills or abilities; physical, mental, and intellectual capabilities; and resources that make health decisions more convenient or difficult

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Reinforcing factors

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Support and encouragement or discouragement that come from Significant others or situations in your life that enable a particular behaviour

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Health belief model

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It begins with how serious you think of the consequences will be if you do nothing. Second you ponder if you think you will get that specific concern, if there is a serious chance you will then you will be more likely to change it. Finally you’re cue to action, or if you will actually make a change.

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Stages of change trance theoretical model

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  1. Precontemplation. No intention of changing, are unaware.
  2. Contemplation. Thinking about it.
  3. Preparation. Know they need to change, focus on what they can do to move into action.
  4. Action. Actually make the change.
  5. Maintenance. Continuing the changes actively.
  6. Termination. When the behaviour is seen as the new normal
  7. Relapse. May or may not exist; when one does not continue with the change
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Belief

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Appraisal of the relationship between some object, action, or idea and some attribute of that object, action, or idea

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Attitude

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Relatively stable set of beliefs, feelings, and behavioural tendencies in relation to some thing or someone

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Health belief model

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Model for explaining how our beliefs about our health may influence our attitudes and behaviours regarding our health and wellness

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Shaping

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Using a series of small steps to reach a particular goal gradually

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Imagined rehearsal

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Practising a skill or behaviour through mental imagery

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Modelling

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Learning specific behaviours by watching others perform them

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Situational inducement

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Attempts to influence of behaviour by using situations and occasion structured to exert control over that behaviour

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Positive reinforcement

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Presenting something positive following a behaviour being reinforced

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Psychosocial health

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Also known as mental health. The intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of health

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Characteristics of people who are mentally healthy

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They feel good about themselves, they can feel comfortable with other people, they control anxiety, they can meet the demands of life, they can curb hate and guilt, they have a positive outlook, they enrich the lives of others, they cherish the things that make them smile, they value diversity, they appreciate and respect nature

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Intellectual health

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The thinking part of psychosocial health, includes values, attitudes, and beliefs

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Emotional health

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The feeling part of psycho social health, the feeling reactions to life

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Emotions

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Intensified feelings or complex patterns of feelings we experience

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Examples of poor emotional health

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Hostility, withdrawn, moody, grumpy, nasty, irritable, overly quiet, cry easily.

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Social bonds

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Degree and nature of interpersonal contacts

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Social supports

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Structural and expressive aspects of social interactions

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Prejudice

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A negative evaluation of an entire group of people usually based on unfavourable and often mistaken ideas about the group

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Interconnectedness

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A web of connections, including your relationship to yourself, to others, and to a larger meaning or purpose in life

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Mindfulness

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Awareness and acceptance of the reality of the present moment

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Internal influences

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Your traits, hormonal functioning, physical health status, level of physical fitness, elements of mental and emotional health

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Self efficacy

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Belief in your ability to perform a task successfully

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Personal control

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Belief that your efforts can and do influence situations and interactions with others

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Self-esteem

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Your sense of self respect or self

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Learned helplessness

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An attitude of giving up and not trying because of past failures

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Learned optimism

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Pattern of responding that focusses on positive, because you could choose to view each situation positively with a sense of hope

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Resiliency

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Those traits or character that protect you and your community from threat or harm

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Happiness

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Feeling contentment created when expectations, and physical, psychological, and spiritual needs are met and life is enjoyed

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Subjective well-being

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An uplifting feeling of inner peace and/or an overall feel-good state

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Mental illnesses

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Conditions that result in abnormal thinking, feeling, moods, and behaviours, and cause a varying degree of impaired everyday functioning

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Endogenous depression

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A type of depression with a biochemical imbalance

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Exogenous depression

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A type of depression with an external cause, such as the death of a loved one or marital break up

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Seasonal affective disorder

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A type of depression that occurs in the winter months, when sunlight levels are

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Anxiety disorders

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Disorders characterized by persistent feelings of threat and anxiety and coping with every day problems

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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A disorder characterized by obsessive thoughts or habitual behaviours

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Phobia

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A deep or persistent fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that results in a compelling desire to afford the source of the fear

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Panic attack

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Be sudden, rapid onset of disabling terror

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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I disorder characterized by terrifying flashbacks, detachment, and anxiety following a severe Trumatic event

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Schizophrenia

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A mental illness characterized by a rational behaviors, severe alteration of senses or hallucinations, and often, and inability to function in society

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Psychiatrist

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License Doctor Who specializes in treatment of mental and emotional disorders

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Psycho analyst

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Psychiatrist psychiatrist or psychologist with special training and psychoanalysis

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Psychologist

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A person with a PhD in training in clinical or counselling psychology

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Social worker

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A person with a masters degree and at least two years of clinical training

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Counsellor

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A person with a variety of academic and experimental training who deals with the treatment of emotional problems, anyone can call themselves a counsellor

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Stress

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Our mental and physical responses to the demands placed on us

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Stressor

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A physical, social, or mental event or condition that forces us to adjust to it

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Eustress

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Stress perceived as good because it Potentially results in a positive change

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Distress

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Stress perceived as bad because it potentially result in a negative change

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Psychoneuroimmuneology

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Science that focusses on the intricate relationships between the mind and the body and its relationship to health

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Homeostasis

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A balance or rhythmic physical and mental state in which the body systems function smoothly

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Adaptive response

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Form of adjustment in which the mind and body work to restore homeostasis

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General adaptation syndrome

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The pattern followed in our physiological and psychological responses to stress, consisting of the alarm, resistance, and exhaustion phases

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Autonomic nervous system

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A portion of the central nervous system that regulates bodily functions and it’s not normally consciously controlled

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Sympathetic nervous system

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A branch of the automatic nervous system responsible for simulating the stress response

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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Part of the autonomic nervous system responsible for slowing systems simulated by the sympathetic nervous system

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Hypothalamus

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A section of the brain that controls the SNS and directs the stress response

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Epinephrine

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Also called adrenaline, a hormone that stimulates body systems

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Phases of general adaptation syndrome

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Alarm phase, resistance phase, exhaustion face

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Cortisol

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Hormone released by the adrenal glands that facilitate the release of stored nutrients to meet energy demands

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Conflict

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Simultaneous existence of incompatible demands, opportunities, needs, or goals

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Overload

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A condition in which we feel pressured by constant and overwhelming demand made upon us

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Burn out

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Physical and mental exhaustion as a result of continuous experience of overload

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Background distress or

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Environmental stressors, such as heat, humidity, noise and so on

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Cognitive stress systems

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The psychological system that governs your emotional response to stress

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Psychological hardiness

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A personality trait characterized characterized by control, commitment, challenge, choices, connectedness, and courage

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Meditation

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Relaxation technique that involves deep breathing and potentially visualization

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Spirituality

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Interconnectedness, mindfulness, everyday life, community

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Asexual

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Lack of sexual attraction to anyone or low/absent interest in sexual activity

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Cisgender

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When gender identity is considered to match biological sex

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Allosexual

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Experiences sexual attraction in a way that is considered the norm

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Gender fluid

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Gender is not fixed and may be non binary

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Intersex

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Having primary and secondary sex characteristics that are not exclusively male or female

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Pansexual

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Open to relationships with people regardless of their orientation or gender identity

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Queer

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All encompassing term

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Pomosexual

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Person who doesn’t identify with a particular orientation label who doesn’t fins them useful

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Transgender

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When gender identity would does not fit into traditional expectations of male or female

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Two spirit

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Modern term used by some FNM to describe gender identity and gender variance

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Non binary

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Umbrella term for person who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that is neither entirely male or female.

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Androgynous

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Identifying and or presenting as neither specifically male or female

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Gender fluid

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One who embraces fluidity of gender identity

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Agender

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One who does not identify with a particular gender

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Gender non-conforming

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One whose physical or behavioural characteristics do not correspond to the traditional expectations of their gender

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Queer gender

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One who does not identify with a single fixed gender

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