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Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Dr. Jennifer Brubaker
257 episodes
3 days ago
Send us a text Thank you so much for being here! The only two people whose opinions should matter are the 9-year-old version of you and the 90-year-old version of you. In this first Jen is Zen episode of 2026 - my 50th birthday year! - I reflect on aging, identity, and why I look and feel better now than I did four years ago despite cultural narratives that tell us midlife should look like decline. Someone I love showed me a past photo and described as “old” and “stringy.” Former Jen wo...
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Send us a text Thank you so much for being here! The only two people whose opinions should matter are the 9-year-old version of you and the 90-year-old version of you. In this first Jen is Zen episode of 2026 - my 50th birthday year! - I reflect on aging, identity, and why I look and feel better now than I did four years ago despite cultural narratives that tell us midlife should look like decline. Someone I love showed me a past photo and described as “old” and “stringy.” Former Jen wo...
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Self-Improvement
Education,
Kids & Family,
Parenting
Episodes (20/257)
Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Jen is Zen - The Only Opinions That Matter
Send us a text Thank you so much for being here! The only two people whose opinions should matter are the 9-year-old version of you and the 90-year-old version of you. In this first Jen is Zen episode of 2026 - my 50th birthday year! - I reflect on aging, identity, and why I look and feel better now than I did four years ago despite cultural narratives that tell us midlife should look like decline. Someone I love showed me a past photo and described as “old” and “stringy.” Former Jen wo...
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4 days ago
29 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Merry Twixtmas and Happy 2026!
Send us a text Happy Holidays! Merry Twixtmas! Happy 2026! I am so grateful to have you here! In this New Year’s episode of Reframing Me, I reflect on Twixtmas - that quiet, in-between week where time has no meaning and our perspective widens. My family’s New Year’s traditions have evolved, making me really think about what it means to grow alongside our children, to grieve what was while embracing what is, and to let traditions change without losing their meaning. This episode invites you to...
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2 weeks ago
19 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Connected, Yet Isolated: The Parallel Between Teens and Midlife Moms
Send us a text Thank you for being here - if you're new, I'm sorry, I don't typically ramble this much - haha! I am December-holidays-end-of-semester fried right now, so please excuse me as I take a bit too many words to say perhaps a bit too little. Don't worry - our final episode of the year will be MUCH more focused (so come back please, even if you're like WTF?? to this one!) This episode is an honest reflection on feeling deeply connected yet quietly alone – a place many women find...
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3 weeks ago
47 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Jen is Zen - Just Begin Again
Send us a text Thank you so much for being here! Today, I'd like you to think about this: You can begin again anytime. Not next week. Not next semester. Not when life “calms down” because we all know that’s never. Not when the kids launch or when the holidays end or when the stars realign. Just… begin again. What if beginning again is simply the next breath you take? The next thought you choose? The next decision you make without dragging your past self into it? YOU are the one who decides wh...
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1 month ago
20 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Are you Fighting for the Fun of It? Recreational Arguing in Families
Send us a text Welcome back to the show! I’m so grateful you’re here! And I’m so happy to have my voice back to normal after an icky cold that I may have rambled a bit more than usual – hahaha! But today, we’re talking about something many families do without ever naming itn - recreational arguing. You know the dynamic: nothing is actually wrong, but yet somehow you’re in a debate about tone, or not listening, or why someone “waited until now” to mention something. But underneath the surface-...
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1 month ago
1 hour 2 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Jen is Zen - Redirection from Rejection
Send us a text What if it wasn’t you after all? What if that rejection was a redirection to something better or to where you are supposed to be? Thank you so much for being here! In today’s Jen is Zen, I’m inviting you to look at rejection through a completely differ...
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1 month ago
25 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
The Thanksgiving Visit: 7 Tips for Enjoying a Visit from your College Student
Send us a text In 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 in...
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1 month ago
39 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Jen is Zen - Create Your Magic
Send us a text Thank you so much for being here! *** Join me in the Reframing Circle to go deeper each month with *1 bonus Jen is Zen episode,* *1 matreniassance-themed episode,* *1 guided meditation,* and *weekly book readings/discussions.*** You can create your own magic. You c...
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1 month ago
20 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
November Gratitude Meditation
Send us a text *** Join me in the Reframing Circle to go deeper each month with *1 bonus Jen is Zen episode,* *1 matreniassance-themed episode,* *1 guided meditation,* and *weekly book readings/discussions.*** Each month in the Reframing Circle, we'll have a guided meditation. This month, the focus will be on gratitude. To show my gratitude to all of you, I've unlocked this November meditation, so you can have a peek inside, and because gratitude is something that you must have before you can...
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1 month ago
8 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
The End of Youth Sports 2.0 and Ambiguous Loss
Send us a text It's the home stretch for my years as a "Football Mom," and I am feeling the feels. 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 after day, week after week, year after year, there comes a 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 with the spor...
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1 month ago
1 hour 7 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
How to Evolve with your Teens: Moving from a Vertical to a Horizontal Relationship
Send us a text *** Join me in the Reframing Circle to go deeper each month with *1 bonus Jen is Zen episode,* *1 matreniassance-themed episode,* *1 guided meditation,* and *weekly book readings/discussions.*** What does it really take to build openness, honesty, and trust with our kids as they grow into teens? It's not by becoming the "cool mom" and loosening all boundaries, but it is by evolving right alongside them. As kids grow up, parent–child relationships shift from vertical to horizont...
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2 months ago
45 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Reframe the Moment: Chapter 8 - Our Discontent
Send us a text Be a founding member and join the Reframing Circle for EXCLUSIVE content! Inside the Circle - a private space for women ready to rediscover themselves beyond the frames around them, the roles they play, and the narratives they’ve been told - you'll have access to bonus Matrenaissance, Jen is Zen, book content and more! In this bonus episode, we continue our weekly series, reading and discussing excerpts from my new book, Reframe the Moment. It's super fun and appropri...
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2 months ago
9 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
It's Time to Reframe YOU: A walk-through of the ReFRAME Model
Send us a text Welcome back to the show! I hope you enjoy this episode - it's not a typical episode; instead, it's more of a guided walk-through of the ReFRAME process, a six-phase model for personal and identity transformation. Do you feel like you're not quite sure who you're becoming, but you know you're not who you were? Identity discovery is a fluid, ongoing practice of communication between our past, present, and emerging selves, and the ReFRAME model exists to help you through it. The...
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2 months ago
59 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Reframe the Moment: Chapter 6 - Feeling the Feels
Send us a text In this bonus episode, we continue our weekly series, reading and discussing excerpts from my new book, Reframe the Moment. It's super fun and appropriate because each essay grew out of a Jen is Zen episode, so why not bring it full circle. Today we talk about Chapter 6 - Feeling the Feels. We waste so much energy avoiding uncomfortable emotions. Whether it’s sadness, worry, fear, or uncertainty, pushing feelings away doesn’t make them disappear - it only delays heali...
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2 months ago
13 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Understanding Mean Girls: How Insecurity, Power, and Belonging Shape Teen Friendships
Send us a text I hope you enjoy this episode! Teen friendships can be beautiful -and brutal. This episode explores why some kids become “mean girls,” how exclusion and gossip take root, and what’s really happening beneath the surface. Drawing from Relational Aggression and Social Identity Theory, it explains how insecurity, power dynamics, and the need to belong shape behavior in middle and high school friend groups. The discussion discusses how social media magnifies hierarchy and comparison...
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2 months ago
45 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Reframe the Moment: Chapter 5 - The In Between
Send us a text In this bonus episode, we continue our weekly series, reading and discussing excerpts from my new book, Reframe the Moment. It's super fun and appropriate because each essay grew out of a Jen is Zen episode, so why not bring it full circle. Today we talk about Chapter 5 - The In Between. The "in-between" is the space between who we were and who we are becoming. And the more we can trust it, the more we can start to see it not as a pause or a waiting room, but as an in...
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2 months ago
18 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Reframe the Moment: Chapter 4 - Underneath the Emotions
Send us a text In this bonus episode, we continue our weekly series, reading and discussing excerpts from my new book, Reframe the Moment. It's super fun and appropriate because each essay grew out of a Jen is Zen episode, so why not bring it full circle. Today we talk about Chapter 4 - Underneath the Emotions. It's ok to feel all of the feels, but we just can't live there. We are not our emotions; emotions are like the weather - just passing through - and we are the clear blue sky ...
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3 months ago
9 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Jen is Zen - Kindness: An Energetic Alignment
Send us a text Kindness realigns us - one small, intentional act can shift our energy and open our hearts to something bigger. When we lead with kindness, we invite joy. That joy clears the lens through which we see the world, allowing us to view life and people through love. Love naturally awakens gratitude - not the performative kind, but the deep, grounding awareness that helps us see the good that’s still here. Gratitude builds confidence - quiet, steady, authentic confidence —- the kind...
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3 months ago
15 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
College Is Not Job Training: 4 Myths Parents Need to Rethink
Send us a text College application season brings pressure, opinions, and plenty of myths about what makes higher education valuable. This episode unpacks the biggest fallacy of higher education - that college is job training - and explores four common misconceptions parents often hear: choosing majors only for profitability, dismissing the value of minors, chasing prestige instead of fit when selecting a school, and assuming general education courses are a waste of time. With a mix of practic...
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3 months ago
54 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Reframe the Moment: Chapter 3 - Life's a Rollercoaster
Send us a text In this bonus episode, we continue our weekly series, reading and discussing excerpts from my new book, Reframe the Moment. It's super fun and appropriate because each essay grew out of a Jen is Zen episode, so why not bring it full circle. Today we talk about Chapter 3 - Life's a Rollercoaster, and it's appropriate because I know I often find myself comparing where I'm at on my journey and questioning if I will ever be "successful" if someone else "has ALL of the suc...
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3 months ago
11 minutes

Reframing Me - Self-Development & Parenting Teens for Midlife Moms
Send us a text Thank you so much for being here! The only two people whose opinions should matter are the 9-year-old version of you and the 90-year-old version of you. In this first Jen is Zen episode of 2026 - my 50th birthday year! - I reflect on aging, identity, and why I look and feel better now than I did four years ago despite cultural narratives that tell us midlife should look like decline. Someone I love showed me a past photo and described as “old” and “stringy.” Former Jen wo...