Dr. Terrie Lewine is a Philadelphia-based nonviolent communication teacher and facilitator, chiropractor, and owner of Back to Life Urban Sanctuary.

In this episode, Eryn and Dr. Terrie talk about her journey with nonviolent communication, what nonviolent communication is, what violent language is, belonging, communicating our feelings, the function of feelings, getting needs met, what are needs?, empathy in nonviolent communication & how empathy changes how we show up, impact & intention, carceral culture, meaning making & taking responsibility for the meaning we make.

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/terrie-lewine 

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B Rosenberg

• Decolonizing Nonviolent Communication by Meenadchi (currently out of stock)

• Too Much? blog by Dr. Terrie