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
Positive Parenting and Teens
Explore the transformative power of positive parenting in this insightful episode. Delve into the fundamental question of whether you embody the qualities you seek in others. Uncover t…
Just For Me - Movement is Medicine
Fitness doesn’t seem like it matters until all of a sudden one day, it becomes obvious how much it does.
After all of the craziness of the holidays and ALL that we have been doing for E…
Jen is Zen - Attract What You Deserve
You only attract what you think you deserve. The Laws of Attraction and Resonance explain that we don’t attract what we want or even what we love – we attract what we are. If you don’t …
Connect with your Teens in 2024
Happy 2024!
In this episode, we kick off the year with a discussion on fostering better connections with your teenagers. I'll share 10 valuable tips, starting with the importance of not…
Control+Alt+Delete: A Reset for 2024
Who are you today? Who were you one year ago? Who would you like to be one year from now? What do you need to take on the journey to become that person, and what do you need to leave be…
Merry and Bright: Change and Growth with Teens and Traditions
Jen is Zen - Overthinking
Overthinking is a failure to trust ourselves. It's a failure to trust our knowledge, our history, our training, our intuition. We know so much more than we give ourselves credit for. Tr…
Special ICYMI The Mom Episode - Part 2: Getting Back to Business! and 6 Tips for Reclaiming Your Career and Personal Brand
In part 2 of this MONSTER-sized mom episode, we're continuing to celebrate moms, girl power and our 100th episode week! In part 1 we talked about the struggles that working moms face, s…
Special ICYMI 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 100th episode week. Girls can do ANYTHING and be ANYTHING, but telling girls that they can or sh…
Jen is Zen - Reframing the 100th Episode
You can reframe everything to be what you want it to be – you can begin anew at any point in time – because you are not obligated to stay the person you are or be the person you were. …
The Thanksgiving Visit - 10 Tips to Prep for Your College Student and Relational Dialectics
As many of you prepare and wait for the highly anticipated Thanksgiving visit from your college students, let's have a conversation about some tips and things to expect from this visit …
Jen is Zen - Never Less
You can never be less.
You can never be anything less than who you were as you persevered through challenges. You can never be less than who you were as you accomplished amazing success…
Re: That - Post-Game
In the episode "Game Over," we had a conversation about the loss we feel when our kids' sports or activities end, whether its because they've lost interest or didn't make the team or, a…
Jen is Zen - The Dissonance of Change
Can you make the space listen and be changed by what you hear?
We have talked about the difference between listening and hearing, I’ve told you the importance of listening to your teens,…
Game Over: The End of Youth Sports/Activities and Ambiguous Loss
When your kids are involved in an activity that becomes consuming of your time, energy, and money, and when we find ourselves on the sideline or in the stands or seats watching day afte…
Jen is Zen - It's Britney, Bitch
How quick are you to judge others? What do your judgments of others say about you?
Most of us really want to think we’re not judgy, but then, we see something or someone and it’s there …
The Place To Be: 10 Tips for Making Your Teens (and their friends!) Want To Be At Home
Creating a harmonious and welcoming home life and environment plays a crucial role in shaping the lives of teenagers. If we can cultivate a home that offers them space for their needs a…
Jen is Zen - Gratitude Over Guilt
I feel guilt. When I look at the world and see chaos and turmoil and sadness, I feel guilt. I have so much that others don't. But guilt is an unproductive emotion. What if instead of fe…
As If: Changing How You Relate with the Universe (and the People in it!)
Act. As. If. Act as if you’re successful and you’ll be successful. Act as if you’re happy and you’ll be happy. Act as if you’re confident, and you’ll be confident. Act… As… If. If you a…
Jen is Zen - You Are Enough
Everyone who you think is perfect, doesn’t think that they’re enough. What if we all just accepted that we were enough? The best way for us to get wherever we want to go or to be whoe…