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 [email protected]; 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
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 230
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
The Mom Episode - Part 1: Girls Can Do ANYTHING! and 7 Tips for Work-Family Integration
In part 1 of this MONSTER-sized mom episode, we're celebrating moms, girl power, and our 50th episode week (this is episode 49!). Girls can do ANYTHING and be ANYTHING, but telling girl…
Jen is Zen - The Roller Coaster of Life
Are you able to celebrate others’ success and say “it’s just not my story”? Life isn’t linear, and each of our individual journeys are independent and unique. We are moving at our own p…
Jen is Zen - Passing Emotions
It’s ok to feel whatever emotions that you feel, but don’t let yourself live there. You have the right to feel all of the feels, but can you recognize who you truly are underneath that …
The Law of Resonance: Changing Your Family's Frequency
Like attracts like. The Law of Resonance is one of the main principles that the Universe functions on. The frequency of any material object, of our thoughts, our emotions and even our e…
Jen is Zen - Be Present
When life gets busy or challenging and we are stuck in the mundance, we often want to just get through this hard part, so we can reach that next break – that next vacation – that next w…
Boundaries - Part 2: Dating and 6 Keys to Navigating Our Teens' Relationships
We continue on conversation on our expanding family systems and the outside factors that influence us. In this episode, we extend the discussion about the expanding complexities of our …
Jen is Zen - Confidence
What would you do or stop doing if you were a more confident person?
Confidence is a skill - and not an easy one to master. People often take one of two approaches to improving their co…
Boundaries - Part 1: School and 5 Keys to Encouraging Our Teens' Success
As our kids grow up, our family systems expand. While we’ve always had outside factors influencing our family system - whether our extended family, work, school, friends, church, organi…
Just for Me: Find your Ikigai (aka your Life's Purpose)
As moms, somewhere in between diapers and college applications, we often feel like we've lost ourselves - or at least our life's purpose. So sometimes, we deserve to take a few minutes …
I Will Survive - Guiding Your Teens Through Heartbreak and Failure
Someone else's success isn't your failure. Can you celebrate someone else's success? What about your own failure? It's not our favorite part, but failure, disappointment and heartbreak …
Jen is Zen - I Am
I am are two of the most powerful words we can use. I am establishes who we believe we are. I am establishes what we believe about ourselves, about what we are capable of, about what w…
It's Just a Number - 10 Keys to Being Ageless
Today, you get to choose: What are you going to focus on? It’s very easy and natural for us to want something different – if I could just go back to the past, or if it could just get to…
Jen is Zen - Happiness
All I need comes to me when I need it. Sometimes we need that extra push towards happiness... even at the happiest place on Earth. But where does that place of true happiness and conten…
Just for Me: 6 Steps for Writing a Vision Statement
In this episode of JFM, we're taking a selfish to take an important step on our personal journey towards our future. On our last episode, The Life Coach, Beth Cale of Estuary Coaching t…
The Life Coach
Before we were moms, we were women - actual individuals who did things she enjoyed, went places she wanted, had interests and friends and hobbies and a life of her own. And then we bec…
Go ahead... be their friend!
“Parents today are afraid to make their kids mad.” “They want to be their kids’ friend not their parent.” Why has this become such an either or issue? As moms, we already balance so man…
Jen is Zen - The Spring Equinox
It's the Spring Equinox! Here in the Northern Hemisphere, brighter days are on the horizon. It makes us realize that sometimes, it's our time to shine (literally!), and sometimes, it is…
Jen is Zen - RAIN
What we look for, we see. What we are, we attract. We are constantly attracting what is in our minds and in our hearts. When we have negative energy in our bodies, we attract the negati…
Empathy, Intuition and Dreams
On this special episode, we'll have a conversation with Samantha Fey, author of the book The Awake Dreamer: Lucid Dreaming, Astral Travel and Mastering the Dreamscape, and co-host of th…
Jen is Zen - What Would Jen Do
What is your favorite version of you? What does she look like? Talk like? Act? How does she walk into the room? How does she treat people? Talk to people? Treat herself? Talk to herself…