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

Send us Fan Mail Someone else's success isn't your failure. Can you celebrate someone else's success? What about your own failure? It's not our favorite part, but failure, disappointment and heartbreak are a part of life. As parents, it's our job to support our teens when they face it, and teach them how to navigate through. It's very easy to celebrate the victories w...

Send us Fan Mail I am are two of the most powerful words we can use. I am establishes who we believe we are. I am establishes what we believe about ourselves, about what we are capable of, about what we deserve in life. Our constant quest for self-improvement and perfection leads us to endless opportunities to criticize and judge ourselves. What if instead, we gave ourself permission to be as impe...

Send us Fan Mail Today, you get to choose: What are you going to focus on? It’s very easy and natural for us to want something different – if I could just go back to the past, or if it could just get to the future already. For years, we just wanted to get older, and now, if we could only be young again… It’s ok to have those reactions. Honor wherever you are and however you feel, but let go of tha...

Send us Fan Mail All I need comes to me when I need it. Sometimes we need that extra push towards happiness... even at the happiest place on Earth. But where does that place of true happiness and contentment come from? It can't come from outside, it needs to come from within. It stems from our confidence and internal peace. Take a few minutes today to reflect on this prompt and find the happi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of JFM, we're taking a selfish to take an important step on our personal journey towards our future. On our last episode, The Life Coach, Beth Cale of Estuary Coaching told us that our first step should be to clarify our vision. Writing down our vision is the best way to manifest it, and this six-step process makes us to really think about the purpose of our l...

Send us Fan Mail Before we were moms, we were women - actual individuals who did things she enjoyed, went places she wanted, had interests and friends and hobbies and a life of her own. And then we became moms, and our identities began to revolve around our children. As they become teens and start getting their own activities, interests and lives, it leaves a literal hole in our lives – or at leas...

Send us Fan Mail “Parents today are afraid to make their kids mad.” “They want to be their kids’ friend not their parent.” Why has this become such an either or issue? As moms, we already balance so many roles in our lives, and this is just one more. The secret to successful parenting of teens is maintaining the balance between being their parent and being their friend because they need us as both...

Send us Fan Mail It's the Spring Equinox! Here in the Northern Hemisphere, brighter days are on the horizon. It makes us realize that sometimes, it's our time to shine (literally!), and sometimes, it isn't. Can we celebrate others and know that it's just not our time right now, but still trust that we are on the right path? Manifesting is about speaking it out loud – and writin...

Send us Fan Mail What we look for, we see. What we are, we attract. We are constantly attracting what is in our minds and in our hearts. When we have negative energy in our bodies, we attract the negative, but when we have positive energy in our bodies, we attract the positive. Sometimes, something or someone is blocking us from moving forward. You are attracting the desires of your heart. What ar...

Send us Fan Mail On this special episode, we'll have a conversation with Samantha Fey, author of the book The Awake Dreamer: Lucid Dreaming, Astral Travel and Mastering the Dreamscape , and co-host of the podcasts Psychic Teachers and Englightened Empaths about empathy, intuition and dreams, and the roles each play in our lives and families. Thank you for listening and being part of this comm...

Send us Fan Mail What is your favorite version of you? What does she look like? Talk like? Act? How does she walk into the room? How does she treat people? Talk to people? Treat herself? Talk to herself? What does she do with her time? Who is she? When you are in a situation, what would happen if you responded as she would? Ask yourself, what would my favorite version of me do? And then do it. Cou...

Send us Fan Mail On the Siblings episode, we talked about how the number of siblings and our relationship with them impacts us throughout our lives. We mentioned that our placement within our families impacts our personality development. Well, Re: That... for over 100 years, Birth Order Theory has addressed that each child will show results of their attempts to adapt to their individual circumstan...

Send us Fan Mail On our journey to rediscover who we are as women beyond the frame of motherhood, let’s take a midweek break, just for us! In this episode, we’ll have a conversation about the five steps to discovering your passion.   Thank you for listening and being part of this community! Let's get social. Follow me on Facebook ,  on  Twitter @reframing_me , on  Instagram @reframingme and o...

Send us Fan Mail I am ready to commit and take myself to the next level. What do I want? I am ready to commit to the next step – what does that look like? I am committing to a regular publishing schedule of Monday (Jen is Zen), Wednesday (Just for Me) and Friday (Family Communication Fridays!), making today our first official Manifestation Monday – Jen is Zen episode! What better way to start your...

Send us Fan Mail Sibling relationships are unique. Yes, all siblings have some degreee of conflict because of the time, space and resources they need to share. Research shows that healthy sibling relationships significantly benefit us in our relationships and in our own mental health later in life. Everything changes during the teen years, and sibling relationships do too. We'll have a conver...

Send us Fan Mail One of the reasons that we’re all here is trying to figure out who we are as women - beyond the frame of motherhood - who are we? What else do we do beyond work? As we start getting more time for us, we’re going to get to rediscover – or maybe just discover for the first time even! – parts of us to fill that space. So what will you fill it with? Take a selfish – what do you want t...

Send us Fan Mail Thank you for listening and being part of this community! Let's get social. Follow me on Facebook ,  on  Twitter @reframing_me , on  Instagram @reframingme and on  TikTok @reframingme I hope you enjoyed the episode! Please leave a review, catch up on any missed episodes, and be sure to follow the show, so you don't miss new content!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

Send us Fan Mail On the Beneath the Layers episode, when talking about communication and parenting styles, we touched on the concept of Conscious Parenting. We said that true connection occurs when we don’t attach our own emotional well-being on to someone else, specifically in this context – we’re looking at our relationships with our teens. Well, RE: that, I have been seeing two trends on social...

Send us Fan Mail It’s time to write a new story. We often don’t realize how hung up we are on past failures, mistakes, heartbreak and trauma. What if we could reframe our story and look at the person who grew from our past. Instead of holding on to what we should have done, can we hold on to what we can do? It’s impossible for us to move into a new story when we are still so hung up on the old. Bu...

Send us Fan Mail One of the reasons that we’re all here is trying to figure out who we are as women - beyond the frame of motherhood - who are we? What else do we do beyond work? As we start getting more time for us, we’re going to get to rediscover – or maybe just discover for the first time even! – parts of us to fill that space. So what will you fill it with? Take a selfish – what do you want t...

Send us Fan Mail Many of us struggle to be our true authentic selves because we’ve often spent our entire lives hiding much of her. Over the years and our efforts to fit in or be the way others wanted us to be, some of us have lost our authentic selves. And now, we have brought this version of us into our current families. In this episode, we have a conversation about this current version of us, w...

Send us Fan Mail On probably close to every episode, we’ve referenced the importance of spending time with our teens, sharing interests with them, and creating quality relationships with them. Quality relationships lead to well-functioning families, and well-functioning families are more stable, they are happier, they have less conflict, they have less lying, etc. Quality relationships require tim...

Send us Fan Mail Do you think of yourself as courageous? We’re often afraid to try something new or to face our fears because we fear we may not have the resiliency or that we may not be able to handle it, if we fail…. Or even sometimes worse… what if we succeed? Bravery, confidence, and rootedness are the trifecta or courage. What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail?   Thank you for listen...

Send us Fan Mail Teenagers lie. But don't we all? What motivates us to lie and why do we do it? As parents, we see lying as a moral issue, whereas teens see it as a practical issue - getting out of something or getting to do something forbidden. How do you detect deception and what do you do when your teens lie? Communication is key. Understanding the role of growth and change in rules may be...

Send us Fan Mail The focus is often on making changes to make ourselves happier - improve ourselves, our families, our bodies, our lives. But, what if we were to just accept it – no narratives – no judgments – just acceptance. It doesn’t mean that we need to like it, just accept it. There’s a freedom in that acceptance.  We typically use this podcast to have a conversation about parenting our teen...