Reframing Me
So many prepare us for the transition to motherhood, but no one prepares us for how hard the transition out is, and once our kids become teens, it also can feel very solitary. The issues we face with teens are often ones we need to talk about, yet feel we can't or shouldn't. Together, we can create a community of women who, faced with growing children and changing families, are relearning how to mom, and relearning who they are as women. Grounded in family communication theory, join Dr. Jennifer Brubaker to have those conversations to help you better understand this new chapter of your life. Episodes focus on both family communication with our teens and reflection and self discovery. Dr. Brubaker has her Ph.D in Communication Studies and is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she has taught for 17 years. Prior to UNCW, she taught at The Ohio State University, Kent State University and the University of Toledo. Originally from Ohio, Jen lives in Wilmington, NC, with her husband, three children, three dogs, cat and a menagerie of small animals. She loves spending time with her family, traveling and all things fitness, sports and wellness. Reach out with your questions, issues or experiences to begin the conversation. Or reach out to say hi and let me know you’re listening :) Join the Reframing Me: The Podcast Community Facebook group to connect with others who are looking to relearn how to parent, now that their kids are teens, and rediscover who they are as women, beyond the framework of motherhood. 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
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***My new book is available now on Amazon!! Reframe the Moment: Choose Your Zen!***
Welcome to our community! I'm happy to have you here! It is three years this week since I started the podcast! Three years!! We have come so far in that time, and we have so many new listeners, so I wanted to take a minute and reintroduce myself, and talk about what we're here to do :)
***My new book "Reframe the Moment: Choose Your Zen" is available right now on Amazon! If you enjoy this Jen is Zen, there are 67 more very much like it to return to again and again***
Every time you wait for the perfect moment to do something, just remember the stickers you never used as a child. (I saw this in an Instagram post recently!)
Sometimes – you just need to do it. Take the leap. Go for it. Try it ...
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In this episode of Reframing Me, we have a conversation about the back-to-school season and all the transitions it brings — for middle schoolers finding their footing, high schoolers speeding toward independence, college students riding the ups and downs of their first semester, and the moms ...
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This week officially marks my 20th year teaching at UNCW. I sat in my annual faculty retreat meeting the other day, and I've realized that I have somehow become a village elder.
If I do even more math, it’s my 25th year teaching because I taught one year at Ohio State duri...
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Thank you so much for being here!!. Back to school season is upon many of us, and transitions periods can be especially hard. Let's walk through the ReFRAME model - Recognize, Feel, Reflect, Articulate, Move, and Embody - as we use my struggles with transitions as a lens:.
Rooted in my new book Reframe the Moment, let's e...
It doesn’t have to be perfect to be powerful. You are better, stronger, and smarter than you think you are. If you are going to make assumptions about your abilities, why not assume the best?
This week, I launched my book - Reframe the Moment: Choose Your Zen. I was so excited to share it with everyone that I posted a super cute reel announcing the book, and the response was amazing! So many kind words. So much suppor...
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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 Facebook generation hits their "digital coming of age," we are starting to see the consequences of our oversharemting.
What about teens who overshare?
And the bi...
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Practice the Pause. There’s a big difference between our reaction and our response. We can’t do much about our reactions, but can you practice the pause before responding? In that slight pause, we can often see a very different response, which can lead to a very different result.
We can’t control what our day brings - une...
Exercise is medicine for our body and soul, but what if it's the secret ingredient you've been missing in your family? A communication tool that fosters trust, emotional regulation, and lifelong bonding. Exercise is an unexpected but powerful way to build connection with your teen through movement.
Whether you're walking side by side, cheering from the sidelines, or swapping stories about your workouts ...
Thank you so much for being here! Happy July! I am simultaneously shocked that it is already July and confused as to how it is ONLY July, when I feel like I have lived four lifetimes since January! It's time for our annual check-in to see where we're at six months into the year - your intention, your goals - I had ZERO idea what my intention even was for this year, so don't feel bad if you may be just a...
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Most people spend more time thinking about what they don’t want than thinking about what they do want.
The overall narrative to focus on what we don’t want – avoiding the bad – or thinking in terms of the negative – quite often overshadows what we do want. And that tends to create a vacuum in our present because we don’t really find ourselves with any...
Thank you so much for being here! Welcome to our fabulous community of women - most of us are moms who are raising teens and rediscovering ourselves.
I am in the process of planning our summer vacation, so I thought it was the perfect time to revisit this episode because traveling with teens is always an adventure!!
After a couple of weeks way from the mic, I am back and ready to go!! Well, kinda... and kinda out of my ...
Thank you so much for being here!! I am so appreciative of you for tuning in!
We’re living in a time when the world feels increasingly chaotic, and somehow we’re expected to keep functioning like everything’s fine. In this episode, I explore the concept of hypernormalization — how dysfunction becomes our default, and what that does to our minds, our bodies, and our relationships. From the global to the personal, this i...
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It wasn’t about the berries! In this episode of Reframing Me, we explore how small, everyday moments—like an almost missed berry picking trip—can trigger deeper emotional responses in parents of teens. Grounded in Family Systems Theory, Relational Dialectics Theory, and Metaphor Theory, this episode explains how family rituals carry symbolic meaning, and how their disruption can sig...
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...
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If you’re a mom, especially a mom of teenagers, you are probably feeling tired. All. The. Time. But what if your exhaustion isn’t just about lack of sleep? What if it’s about the type of rest you're not getting?
There’s a powerful framework I want to share with you today - I was introduced to it in the book The Hustle Cure by Sophie Cliff, but it comes ...
Thank you so much for being here! It's our 200th episode!! And today, for the first time, "Reframing Me" is ranking in France, so I am dusting off my high school French (well... that may be a BIT of a stretch...).
“You are the sky. Everything else—it’s just the weather.”
Or, maybe more simply: You are not your feelings. You are the one who feels them. Emotional complexity is the ability to separate yourse...
With prom season in full swing, and graduations upon us, and wedding season – tryouts – the post-college decision day aftermath - and of course the always a favorite "What are you going to do after graduation?” question that may be looming in the air, I wanted to revisit a favorite conversation of mine because Sometimes it’s almost as if your teens didn’t see your parenting vision board, isn’t it? What happens wh...
Thank you for being here today! In celebration of Mother's Day, let's revisit our special Mom episodes! When these first aired, I was excited about our upcoming 50th episode. Now, here I am, about to record our 200th episode!
In part 1 we talked about the struggles that working moms face, so we continue our conversation by looking at the struggles of stay-at-home moms. SAHMs report feelings of sadness, lone...
Thank you for being here today! In celebration of Mother's Day, let's revisit our special Mom episodes! When these first aired, I was excited about our upcoming 50th episode. Now, here I am, about to record our 200th episode! I guess I was right: Girls CAN do anything!
In part 1 of this MONSTER-sized mom episode, we're celebrating moms, girl power. Girls can do ANYTHING and be ANYTHING, but telling gir...
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