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Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms: Daily Summaries Delivered
by Dr. Jennifer Brubaker
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, evolving relationships with partners, redefining personal goals, and building a life that feels authentic and meaningful.
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- 1 weeks ago14 min
Jen is Zen - Version 2.0
Thank you so much for being here!!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 for me. Thankfully, I’m not that Jen anymore. I’m not the woman who would let a pair of white jeans determine her entire value as a human. Who I am now is the kind of woman who, yes, still criticizes herself. Who still spirals at times. But now I’m the woman who can step back and look at the situation and see it for what it is.I wish I could go back and apologize to the woman I was who took so much abuse from herself. Can you forgive yourself for not knowing then what you know now? If you could apologize to the woman you were, what would you say? And can you let her forgive you for it? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago44 min
Back to Class! My 10 Guiding Principles About Families
Welcome back to the show! Thank you for being here!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 underlying or guiding principles about families, and wow! did I enjoy putting this list together! Today, we're going through all ten. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 weeks ago13 min
Jen is Zen - Choose Your Frame
Thank you so much for being here! 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? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 3 weeks ago30 min
Advice for Middle School? Just Lock in. 20 tips for making middle school parenting easier
Thank you so much for being here! It's hard to believe it's been four years since I had my last middle schooler... the wounds are still fresh y'all (haha! - I'm just being "dramatic"). As someone who spent six consecutive years with one or two kids in middle school - two boys, one girl - all different personalities, I consider myself to be a credible expert, so let me share with you 20 tips for surviving middle school parenting - 20 things that in hindsight, would have made life a lot easier. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 3 weeks ago24 min
Jen is Zen - What would Dolly do?
Thank you so much for being here!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. Maybe becoming our “best” selves isn’t about achieving more at all. Maybe it’s about putting more good into the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 4 weeks ago56 min
Call Me, Maybe? (Please?!): How to Communicate with Your College Kid
Thank you so much for being here!!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, showing interest in the ordinary details of their lives, giving them room to make their own choices, knowing when they need encouragement versus real support, and making it safe for them to share the hard stuff. Their college experience belongs to them, and it may look nothing like ours. As they learn to need us differently, the goal isn’t to make them prove they still want us in their lives. It’s to keep creating the kind of relationship they want to participate in and to make sure they always know they can come to us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Aug 19, 202627 min
Jen is Zen - The Only Expectations that Matter
Thank you so much for being here!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 other people expect from us. We can't control how they evaluate us. We can't control whether somebody misunderstands us. We can't control whether someone thinks we should be doing more. We can't control whether somebody likes our work, our choices, our clothes, our parenting, our personality, our podcast, our priorities – any of it. But we can control whether we automatically accept their assessment as truth.And maybe that's the part of people pleasing we don't talk about enough. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Aug 12, 202610 min
Jen is Zen - Grateful for this Moment
Thank you for being here! 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?" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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About 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, evolving relationships with partners, redefining personal goals, and building a life that feels authentic and meaningful.
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