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
Jen is Zen - Take My Advice
When people give advice, they’re not really speaking to the person in front of them. They’re actually talking to a younger version of themselves. When you look back with the wisdom, exp…
ReMIX: Best Friends/Worst Enemies: Strengthening and Maintaining Sibling Relationships
Summer ReMIX!!!! Family vacations provide us a space to observe our family system, especially the sibling relationship, so we;re throwing it back to our conversation on siblings.
Sibling…
Just For Me - Be a Witness: Kosha
Can you observe yourself as a witness, just looking on, without judgment, thinking, planning or analyzing?
To observe ourselves as a witness, we need to work through the layers. A kosha …
Always an Adventure: Traveling with Teens
After a couple of weeks away from the mic, I am back and ready to go!! Well, kinda... and kinda out of my comfort zone. How about you? Are you pushing yourself out of your comfort zone …
ICYMI Jen is Zen - Dear Me
In case you missed it the first time (or if you're like me and can use some reminding!), it’s time to write a new story. We often don’t realize how hung up we are on past failures, mist…
ReMix: Tell Me Lies: Lying, Deception and Teens
Summer REMIX!!! I'm on vacation this week, but I'm pulling this one out of the archives as a REMIX! Teenagers lie. But don't we all? What motivates us to lie and why do we do it? As par…
ICYMI Jen is Zen - What Would Jen Do?
In case you missed it the first time (or like me, need a bit of reminding!), here's a favorite of mine. What is your favorite version of you? What does she look like? Talk like? Act? Ho…
Why are you like this? Understanding Communication Traits
Why am I always trying to improve? To be more or to be better? Why am I always questioning what I'm doing? Why am I like this? Why is she like this? Or he like this? Or why are you like…
ICYMI Jen is Zen - Be the Person You Want ReMIx
What would happen if we were the kind of person that we would want to have in our lives? How would our relationships improve if we applied that type of empathy to them? If we saw a situ…
Just For Me - Podcast Pilates
Think about all of the time and effort that you put into everyone else. Well, it's time to take a selfish and put a little of that into you, as we have a conversation on Pilates, all of…
Jen is Zen - Embrace the Hard
When you change your perspective, you change your world. What are you struggling with? And can you embrace the hard? Because yes, it is hard, but if it was easy, everyone would have it.…
ReMix: Understanding and Managing Stress and a Master Checklist for Senior Summer
Summer REMIX!!! Our lives are full of stress - some positive, some negative, some predictable and some unpredictable. In this remixed episode, we'll revisit stress from a family communi…
Jen is Zen - Make Peace With It
What can you make peace with to make your life easier and happier? What do you keep fighting that you could instead make peace with - is it something about your job or your partner or y…
I Just Can't. Why Teens Have So Much Drama and How You Can Help
Teens and preteens are full of drama - the gossip and fighting, the problems and issues, the relationships that come and go and come again, the frenemies and crushes, the ups and the d…
Jen is Zen - Yes, You Have a Summer Body
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 o…
Don't Post That!: Are You an Oversharent?
Are you a sharent? Do you share pictures, stories, videos and information about your kids online? Many of us do it regularly without ever thinking about how it impacts our kids. As the …
Failure is Progress
Sometimes the next level isn't up. Sometimes we need to go in to realize that failure is just practice, and practice is always progress. We've gotten good at setting our goals and envis…
The Last - Top 20 Things I Learned in Middle School
It's our last week of 8th grade for my youngest - for six years I've had at least one if not two in middle school. It has been a journey. We're conditioned to be sad at the end, but on …
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 50th episode week! (this is episode 51!) In part 1 we talked about the struggles that…
Jen is Zen - Closer to Free
"Reframing Me" is celebrating its 50th episode with an update on our initial prompt: "What would I be, who would I be, if I was truly free?" to look and see who we are today, and if we …