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Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms

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

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15:34

Jen is Zen - What is your why?

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2025/01/30

Send us a textThank you so much for being here! What is your why? It's so important to ask yourself this question, whether it's to find your focus, make it through something challenging, or simply get yourself out of bed in the morning. Because you create your own magic. You create your own future. You don’t need to be chosen. You don’t need to wait to be chosen. We are the creators of our own destiny. We have a responsibility to ourselves to create our lives.Through my recent 28-day gratitud...

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34:52

Snow Day! The Bittersweet Push-Pull of Letting Go

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2025/01/25

Send us a textThank you so much for being here!We had a rare snow week that has felt a bit bittersweet, so we're having a conversation about changes in family dynamics as children grow and leave home, and we're up in our feelings.I'll highlight some key theories—Family Systems Theory, Developmental Stage Theory, and the Stability-Change Relational Dialectic—to help parents understand and navigate these transitions. We'll also talk about how we can handle it, including removing guilt from teen...

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11:47

Jen is Zen - Are you making the world complicated?

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2025/01/23

Send us a textThank you for being here today! It's a snow day in here in Wilmington (where it never snows!), which is super exciting! Snow day vibes are very different here than they are in places where it regularly snows. It's all in how you see it. Are you making life more complicated than it needs to be? The world we live in is inherently subjective. It’s not shaped by some objective reality. It’s shaped by the lens we use to perceive it. We could live through the same day, walk the same s...

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39:17

Why So Angry?: Understanding and Managing Your Teen's...

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2025/01/18

Send us a textIn this episode of Reframing Me, we tackle the rising wave of anger in society—especially in teenagers—and explore how parents can effectively support their teens through these challenging emotions. We discuss the psychological, social, and biological reasons behind teen anger, from hormonal changes and brain development to academic pressures, social media overload, and family dynamics.Key Takeaways:Why Society Feels Angrier Than Ever: Chronic stress, social media influence, and...

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16:22

Jen is Zen - Gratitude is Magic

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2025/01/15

Send us a textThank you so much for being here! What’s the life that you want? If you suspend your disbelief and you take away the doubts and the excuses and narratives in your head telling you otherwise, what is the life that you want? Now, if you were given that life right now, how would you feel? What would you do? How grateful would you be for that life? And the hardest question of all – are you that grateful for your life now? You can probably see a theme with me lately - I am emersed in...

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45:47

New Year, Same Me: Top 10 Tips for Parenting Teens

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2025/01/10

Send us a textWelcome to 2025!Happy New Year! Apparently, today is National Quitters' Day because it's the time (one week-ish into the new year) when people fall from their resolutions, which is why, we should abandon "new year, new me" and embrace "new year, same me, new mindset." In this first podcast episode of the year, we discuss a top 10, best of, practical parenting strategies to build stronger, more positive relationships with our teenagers in the new year. The list encourages parents...

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24:17

Jen is Zen - Leave it in 2024

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2024/12/19

Send us a textThank you so much for being here! Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! As we wrap up another year together and enter 2025, I want you to reflect on all that you've done this year - thank yourself for showing up for you. As you move into a new year, now's the time to leave anything behind that you don't want to carry with you. What would your future look like if you started it free? Free of your doubts, your limitations, your worries, and your fears – free of any self...

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20:00

Part 2: The Robots Come in Peace: How we can use...

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2024/12/13

Send us a textWelcome back! Thank you for being here! In this part two, Dr. Jennifer Brubaker explores how AI tools like ChatGPT can empower personal growth, simplify daily tasks, and help moms envision and achieve their ideal life. Building on the previous episode, she shifts the focus from how teens can use AI to how moms can benefit from it, from goal-setting and visualization to practical uses like meal planning and financial organization. Jen shares her own experience with using AI for l...

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33:29

Part 1: Are the Robots Taking Over? Helping your...

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2024/12/13

Send us a textThank you for being here! In Part 1 of this two-part episode, we have a conversation about Understanding AI to help teens use It responsibly.We look into the world of artificial intelligence and its impact on our lives, focusing on how moms can guide their teens to use AI tools like ChatGPT responsibly and effectively. Drawing parallels to the early days of the internet, Dr. Brubaker reframes the conversation around AI from fear to opportunity, emphasizing its role as a tool for...

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11:13

Jen is Zen - Running on Vibes

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2024/12/05

Send us a textThank you for being here today! Can you believe we're already in December? As we head towards our third new year's together, I've come to the realization in my life that I'm running on vibes alone. But we all know it's easier to stay the same than to embrace change. And it's uncomfortable for us to think about trying new things or heading down new paths because our lives feel full of change, and this would require even more instability, more change, more discomfort and we have e...

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34:40

The Thanksgiving Visit: 7 Tips for Enjoying Your...

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2024/11/26

Send us a textIn this Thanksgiving episode, I am extra thankful for you being here! Many moms (including me!) are anxious to have their college students home for the holiday, but that doesn't mean it won't be without its possible challenges. We'll have a conversation exploring the joys and challenges of welcoming college freshmen back home for the holidays. As our families reconnect, we need to adapt to the changes our child has experienced in their first months at college, from newfound ind...

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40:12

Just For Me: These are a Few of My Favorite Things

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2024/11/22

Send us a textWelcome back! It has been a minute since we took time for a Just for Me episode, so in an effort to let my woowoo side out again after months of my more cerebral side taking the lead, we are going to have a conversation about a few of my favorite things (and no, I cannot say that without thinking of Julie Andrews twirling in the Alps). So manifestation, the Law of Resonance, magic elixirs, collagen, mushrooms, functional fitness, castor oil packs, and more - we are all over the ...

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10:03

Jen is Zen - The Change is Within Us

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2024/11/21

Send us a textThank you so much for being here! It can be very easy to sometimes feel like life and the world, like it’s all out of our control. Like we’re simply responding to things and left wishing they were different. Can you be the change that you are waiting for? Because change can and always should begin with us. So what if we stopped looking outside of ourselves for what we want and instead, if we realized that we actually have the power to create the shifts that we want to see happen...

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44:25

Post-election Emotions: Helping Teens and Young...

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2024/11/13

Send us a textThank you so much for being here!! It's a week post-US presidential election and many are processing it all. Today, we are going to have a conversation about how we as moms can help our teens and young adults to process their feelings following the 2024 presidential election. Our nation feels deeply divided, and these emotions are quite strong among young people. Teenagers and young voters – they often lack the historical context to see this election as one part of a broader pol...

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25:35

Upcycle: Life After Sports

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2024/11/13

Send us a textRe: That....It's that time of year again! In the episode "Game Over," we had a conversation for this NEW batch of senior parents (this is my year off - phew! Last year and the next TWO years, I am back ON!) 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, as many of us face senior year, they finish their final season. But we aren’t the only ones who will feel the end because obviously, the kids ...

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38:05

Upcycle: Game Over - The End of Youth...

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2024/11/10

Send us a textIt is that time of year again! A whole new batch of seniors (and senior parents!) finishing up the sports/activities that have consumed their (our!) lives, time, energy, and money. Afterwords years of finding ourselves on the sideline or in the stands or seats watching day after day, week after week, year after year, this is the point when it all ends. For many, senior year is that end. But for some, it happens sooner, whether they don’t make the team or grow out of love wi...

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17:46

Jen is Zen - The Load that We Carry

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2024/11/08

Send us a textThank you for being with me today! Can we all open the door to a life that’s lighter, fuller, and brimming with self-acceptance? Can we drop the load we’ve been carrying? For so long, we've each been carrying something around with us – something that is heavy – something that is weighing us down. What if today, right now, we each just let it go? If we dropped them, and ran? How would our lives, from here on, how would tjhey be different? Dropping these loads ...

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26:23

Election Anxiety

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2024/11/04

Send us a textElection anxiety is the intense stress or nervousness that people feel surrounding elections, but it’s obviously particularly present in periods leading up to a major election, like this one. It’s characterized by a sense of worry about the future, frustration with the political climate, and often a constant preoccupation with political news and any possible developments. And according to an AP poll, at least 70% of Americans are feeling it on the eve of this Election Day. So we...

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40:29

I Get So Emotional, Baby! Teaching our Teens How to...

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2024/10/25

Send us a textThank you so much for being here! We know all too well how powerful and sometimes overwhelming our teens’ emotions can be. This period is a time of those huge changes —physically, mentally, and emotionally—and these changes bring a whirlwind of emotions that can often feel out of control for both them and us. In today's conversation, we’ll explore the types of emotions teens commonly experience, how they often express those emotions, and how we, as their mothers, can help them m...

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13:19

Jen is Zen - Two Candles Shine Brighter than One

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2024/10/23

Send us a textThank you so much for being here! When a candle lights another candle, it doesn’t lose any of its light, and two candles shine brighter than one. Be the candle that lights the others around you, and surround yourself with those who aren’t afraid to light you when you need it. And stay very clear of the "candleblowers" out there.When I think of it this way – when I think of trying to sustain that lignt in myself and help others to find theirs – I see it as a beautiful reminder of...

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