Deciding to embrace a partnership approach to parenting and other relationships is the easy part. Actually putting partnership principles into practice requires a major overhaul of your thoughts, beliefs, perceptions, interpretations, and conditioned behaviors.

We know that dieting is not as effective as changing your whole way of thinking about health. Likewise, a list of partnership DOs and DON’Ts is not as effective as mindfully retraining your brain to think differently about your relationships and about human nature.

We ended this week’s Grooves with an idea that is hard for many people to accept, but it’s one of the most important new thoughts required to make the shift into partnership.

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