Glossary
Plain-language definitions
Understand the essential terms used in TEG-Blue and The Nervous System Gradient, with clear limits on what those terms can tell us about a person.
The words you will see across TEG-Blue.
This glossary gathers the words that help most at the beginning. Use them to understand the map, not to label people. Context, impact, boundaries, and repair still matter.
Clear definitions for reading the map.
The short name of the project.
When we talk about TEG-Blue, we mean the framework, the map, and the tools that help people see emotional patterns more clearly.
The full name of the framework.
It is a visual way to explore how emotion, body state, relationship, and repair can change.
The central map inside TEG-Blue.
It helps show how a person or relationship may move between safety, protection, control, shutdown, regulation, and repair.
Repeated ways we feel, react, protect ourselves, or try to repair.
A pattern is not a fixed identity. It is something that can be noticed carefully and can change when conditions change.
A way the body organizes under pressure or safety.
It can influence what we feel, perceive, do, and can repair. It does not describe a person's worth.
The available energy and flexibility to feel, think, listen, respond, or repair.
When capacity drops, a response may become narrower or more protective. That can help explain the pattern without excusing harm.
A way to notice what repeats, what impact it has, and what response may care for the situation better.
Pattern reading does not guess motive or diagnose a person's inner state.
Processes that help the body return toward more capacity, flexibility, and presence.
This may include body resources, relationship, time, boundaries, rest, or support.
The work of returning to shared reality after rupture, mistake, or harm.
It may include responsibility, care, boundaries, and a real change in the pattern. It is not apology alone.