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.

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

Jen is Zen - Growth is Painful (Who is that Potato Head?)

August 28, 2024 • Jennifer Brubaker • Episode 151

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Thank you so much for being here today! The growth we desire is usually on the other side of pain. Growing pains come standard with progress because growth is painful. Stagnation is easy. Are you avoiding the discomfort of a growth mindset? How can you instead sit with that discomfort today? Just like the physical development of bones or muscles or eyelashes growing (I am currently feeling like a Potato Head), growing pains are necessary with any area of personal growth. If you want to grow – to reach a new point – a higher level – whether it’s career or spiritual growth that you’re looking for – or you want to pursue higher education – or you’re looking for growth in your relationships or looking for a new relationships – ANY growth – even the BEST growth – it’s going to include growing pains. As we embark on a new school year - change and growth for many - we face growth that we may prefer to avoid.

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