Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Your kids are growing up - but so are you. Reframing Me is the podcast for moms of teens ready to reframe family, identity, and self-development in midlife. Parenting teens is hard -and parenting while rediscovering yourself in midlife can feel even harder. Reframing Me is the parenting podcast for moms raising teenagers who are also navigating the transition out of hands-on motherhood, identity shifts, and the search for balance, fulfillment, and self-development. Hosted by Dr. Jennifer Brubaker, a Communication Studies professor, mom of three teens, and intrapersonal communication expert, each episode blends family communication strategies, honest conversations about parenting teens, and self-reflection tools to help moms strengthen family relationships while rediscovering who they are as women. Together we’ll talk about the issues moms face but don’t always say out loud: changing family dynamics, feeling invisible, letting go of control, and creating new purpose. Through research, theory, and compassionate conversation, you’ll find support, strategies, and a sense of community in this season of parenting and personal growth. Join the Reframing Me community to connect with other midlife moms, share your stories, and reframe how you see yourself, your family, and your future. Send emails to jen@reframing-me.com; or on socials: Reframing Me on FacebookAND join the Facebook group Reframing Me: The Podcast Community; @reframingme on Instagram; Reframing Me on YouTube @reframingme on TikTok Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
This week on Reframing Me, we’re talking about identity, but not in a “find yourself” or completely reinvent your life kind of way. We’re starting with the way identity is actually built: through our roles, relationships, experiences, the feedback we receive from other people, and the parts of ourselves that get reinforced over time.
After a night seeing Olivia Rodrigo with my daughter, I found myself thinkin...
Thank you for being here! It's nearly October, and after August and September being focused outside - getting a routine in place, everyone's schedules together, all of the pieces in their places, I need a breath. We all know what November and December bring - and so October is a good time to take that breath - be a bit selfish even - focus on us. Reframe the idea that selfish is bad - that we must earn or justify our rewards. Octob...
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As our kids get older, the conversations we have with them get harder. Sex, drugs, alcohol, consent, body image, mental health, relationships, safety, world events, and all of the things we wish we could protect them from forever. In this episode, I’m talking about why the goal isn’t to have one perfect “talk.” It’s to create a family comm...
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If I could apologize to the woman I was before….
If you could apologize to the woman you were before, what would you say? Can you forgive yourself for not knowing what you know now?
On the first non-sweltering day of September, I was excited to wear my white jeans. Well, white jeans 1, Jen 0. I spiraled, criticizing every bit of my appearance and losing my gratitude for all my body does ...
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I am back in the classroom for my 26th year teaching college, but this year is especially exciting for me because after six years of teaching only online, I am back in the in-person physical classroom, and I am loving it! I cannot believe how much that one change has resonated through my whole life!
I started the semester of my family communication class establishing my 10 und...
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We don’t get to choose everything that happens in our day, but we do get to choose how we greet it. We get to choose how we see something. We get to frame every situation we encounter. We get to frame our lives. Realizing that, how do you want to frame today?
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What does it really mean to be a good person? I am inspired today by Dolly Parton’s legacy of kindness and generosity. Has our culture’s obsession with self-improvement distracted us from the most important kind of growth. Through everyday choices to lead with empathy, compassion, generosity, and integrity, we each have countless opportunities to make the world around us a little better....
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Sending a child to college changes more than where they live. It changes the parent-child relationship, and the way we communicate has to change with it. Supporting independence doesn’t require disappearing, just as staying close doesn’t mean monitoring, interrogating, or solving every problem. Strong relationships with college-aged kids are built by learning how they communicate, s...
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How much do you edit yourself to fit others’ expectations of you? Do you let others’ expectations define you? How often do you find yourself editing who you are to be who others want you to be? Or behave how others want you to behave? Or look how others want you to look?
Maybe the part of people pleasing we don't talk about enough is the part that recognizes that we can't control what oth...
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I am grateful for this day. I am grateful for this moment.
Most gratitude that we show is situational. It's reactive. That's gratitude because of our circumstances.
Intentional gratitude is something entirely different.
Intentional gratitude isn't asking, "What happened today that I can be grateful for?"
It's asking, "How can I experience today from a place of gratitude?"
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A favorite assignment I give my Family Communication Students is to observe their own family dynamics, applying concepts they've learned. After spending four days with 20 family members in a one beach house, I realized that there are some basic family concepts that could definitely be applied. So let's revisit some of the more applicable family communication concepts: nonvolition, conflict, ro...
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You don't need to attend every emotional event you're invited to.
I have come to realize that there is nothing wrong with declining an invitation and opting to stay home and do nothing - in fact, it's kinda my favorite activity! Similarly, I've also come to realize that we need to protect our peace and siphon our energy, and so we absolutely don't need to attend every emotional event we're inv...
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I'm reading Matt Cook's book Beyond Wanting, and I may only be five chapters in, but it has already made such an impact on me. As someone who has both studied identity communication and practiced manifestation for years, I am shook to see a link between the two that I really hadn't before. Approaching it through his Be-Do-Have model, I discuss approaching identity in the same way.
Available NOW - listen to the free introductions of my NEW courses - Re: Identity and Re: Purpose - both are available now on the Kajabi app/website.
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It's July! Time to a) Panic that "the summer is almost over" (it's not!); b) Spiral that I haven't reached enough of my January goals; c) Take a breath. Look honestly, but not judgm...
Available NOW - listen to the free introductions of my NEW courses - Re: Identity and Re: Purpose - both are available now on the Kajabi app/website.
Listen now Re: Identity click here
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What if your body has been trying to tell you something your mind can't quite hear? In this episode, we explore the basics of somatic practices, the connection between the mind and body...
Available NOW - listen to the free introductions of my NEW courses - Re: Identity and Re: Purpose - both are available now on the Kajabi app/website.
Listen now Re: Identity click here
Listen now Re: Purpose click here
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I saw a post that said how people often make the mistake of expecting our friends to fill all of our friend needs, when really, the happiest people recognize that our friends each repre...
Available NOW - listen to the free introductions of my NEW courses - Re: Identity and Re: Purpose - both are available now on the Kajabi app/website.
Listen now Re: Identity click here
Listen now Re: Purpose click here
How many ideas have you had that never became anything? What idea have you buried that still whispers to you from time to time? Is it time to let it rest – or dig it back up?
In this Jen is Ze...
Thank you so much for being here!!! This week's episode is a reminder that endings and beginnings often exist side by side.
After losing the state championship lacrosse game in golden goal overtime, my son's high school sports career came to an end - as well as my role as a sports mom, and my family's identification as a sports family. With graduation this week too, we find ourselves in a strange emotional limbo, and...
Thank you so much for being here! In the U.S. (and especially living at the beach!), Memorial Day is the "official" launch of summer! And never is our unappreciation of our bodies as great as it is during the summer. Can we say that we love our body... and mean it? What if instead of crititicizing all of our flaws based off of narratives that have been planted in our heads we appreciated and loved our bodies for all...
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