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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 over dinner, shared fitness experiences can become an emotional bridge in the often-complicated world of parenting teens.

You’ll learn why co-exercising (or even just talking about it) can help teens open up, why modeling movement matters during menopause and midlife, and how to talk about fitness in a way that supports self-esteem and avoids body shame.

If you’ve ever struggled to connect with your teen - or wondered how to prioritize your own health without guilt - this episode is for you. Tune in to reframe fitness as more than a habit. It’s a heart-centered strategy for growing stronger - together.

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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 bit off course yourself - we have plenty of time to course correct. We can reroute and realign - set or edit our goals - change the course of our lives at any moment - it doesn't need to be January 1! Join me today for a conversation about who you were six months ago, who you are now, and where you're headed.

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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 anything to hold on to. And focusing on what we don’t want can actually end up directing us down the wrong path.

Where our attention goes, energy flows.

This fear-based thinking about the things that we don’t want to have happen actually end up leaving us little space to create the life we want.

But what about what you are trying to move towards? What you want to achieve? What you want to manifest? We can’t attain any of that if we’re stuck on what we DON’T want.

What would happen if you let yourself want?

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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 comfort zone. How about you? Are you pushing yourself out of your comfort zone enough? Well, I am biting down, closing my eyes and doing it, so we can have a conversation about traveling with teens and the 10 universal reflections we experience on those trips.

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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 is a reflection on what happens when we stop noticing what’s not okay. If you’ve felt off, numb, or overwhelmed by the news cycle, the silence in your own home, or the heaviness in your chest that you can’t quite name, you’re not alone. This one is for your nervous system.

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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 signal emotional shifts in family dynamics. We discuss strategies for navigating these transitions, improving emotional awareness, and supporting both ourselves and our teens as roles and relationships evolve. Includes five practical tips for processing emotional spirals and reframing connection during periods of change.

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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 for all that they do?

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Welcome to the show! I'm so happy that you're here!

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 from Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, a physician who wrote the book Sacred Rest and gave a TED Talk that went viral for good reason. She breaks rest down into 7 distinct types.

Today, we'll have a conversation about these seven different types that we need because, guess what? Our teenagers need them too! And, surprise! None of us are getting them!

Check out the NEW "Reframing Me" blog available NOW at www.Reframing-Me.com

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