Name, Claim & Reframe: Your Path to a Well-Lived Life

by Andrea DeWitt

Name, Claim & Reframe forges a revolutionary pathway of self-discovery that gives readers permission to see and step into their power, their potential, and ultimately their truth.

From life coach Andrea DeWitt comes a powerful new model for handling stress, distress, and change.

Name, Claim & Reframe presents a simple yet powerful strategy to help one navigate life's challenges. In her experiences with coaching especially with younger adults, Andrea noticed several of them lacked the necessary framework to help them respond to life's adversities.

The book outlines this three-way solution which guides us to:
* NAME the source of the issue
* CLAIM the way we want to uniquely tackle the problem
* REFRAME adverse situations through a mindset that encourages optimism and visionary thinking that will serve the future

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction

192 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 27, 2022

About the author

Andrea Mein DeWitt is an author, speaker, and leadership coach who helps high-achievers stop forcing their way through life and start living it. A self-proclaimed warrior in recovery, she created the Name, Claim and Reframe® methodology to help people transform self-doubt into authentic confidence.

Her book Name, Claim & Reframe: Your Path to a Well-Lived Life was featured on NBC's TODAY Show as the Best Motivational Read of 2023—and is now available as an audiobook on Audible, perfect for transforming while you walk, commute, or fold laundry. The companion Name, Claim & Reframe Workbook puts the concepts into action with provocative prompts and exercises.

Andrea holds an M.Ed. in Reading Leadership from UC Berkeley and is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband Bill and their yellow Lab, Maggie.

www.andreadewittadvisors.com
Instagram: @andreadewittcoaching

Reviews

[Lisa Kosak · Rating 4 out of 5]

You are a rarity if you don’t carry any baggage or hurt from your past. So many of us carry the burden of hurtful experiences from our childhood or a dramatic event in our lives. Sadly, we usually can’t brush these experiences off and they impact us throughout our lives.

It’s critical that as adults we recognize our pain and take steps to move on. But how? The new book from life coach Andrea Mein DeWitt, Name Claim & Reframe – Your Path To A Well-lived Life, offers a toolbox to label your pain or what is holding your back, identify new behaviors and energy, and realign with your core values so you can live your life as the “new” you.

So how do we do this if we’ve had decades of pain or challenges? You need to do some self-discovery to grow so you can leave thoughts and experiences behind to reach your potential and access your own inner power. Andrea offers a simple three step process.

1. Name: Label your source of pain, triggers, past experiences, or themes. Andrea shares her own childhood pain growing up particularly with her dad. We need to name what hurts us or holds us back.
2. Claim: Determine which actions align with your values. Once you understand your pain you can clearly identify new behaviors you want to live by. You can create new “energy” and healthier relationships.
3. Reframe: Change your thinking so you can move forward with a clear purpose. Align with your core values so you can live your life in a positive way to support the new “you”. Leave the past behind by reframing your present and the future.

Name Claim & Reframe is a welcoming and engaging book for self-discovery. Not only does it help us label our past or triggers, but you will also learn who you are and how to feel powerful. Everyone needs an intentional and focused view to life rather than living day by day handling life the same old way. I enjoyed learning how to fight my past, how to push self-doubt aside, and essentially become a better “me”.

Andrea shares engaging stories about people she has worked with that have used her three-step toolbox to name their past, take responsibility, and reframed their lives to move ahead. These experiences assist us as we walk the path to change our lives. The book is filled with humor, is engaging, and relevant in all walks of life. The book includes resources to help you identify your values with a core values chart, mini values reflection, numerous personal exercises, and the Gentle Warrior’s Toolbox. Moreover, Andrea offers specifics on reframing your life around family, personal crises, and the real world.

Name Claim & Reframe is a book that really speaks to me as someone who has further work to do with putting baggage behind me and reframing my life. If you are truly committed to personal growth, you will enjoy this book!

[Joyce · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book helpful in thinking through the past, and moving on to the future.

[Loralei Matisse · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book came at the perfect time in my life - right when I was getting ready to leave a job, find a new path, and lean into some habitual patterns that were no longer serving my personal or professional life. Andrea DeWitt takes our masculine and feminine style responses and provides incredibly easy and applicable self-awareness tools.
Name, Claim & Reframe are exactly that - Name the emotion / trigger. Claim a new response, a new higher, self-aware and empowering action. Reframe the experience into a positive perspective and realign your thinking with "more optimism, strategic and visionary thinking".
The process and tools Andrea DeWitt provides are easy to use, stack one on top of the other, and allow you to come from a more balanced place when life - professional or personal - throws whatever it can your way. She even gives one the preparatory steps for the resistance you may feel coming up as you change your way of thinking and responding.
I found myself underlining steps, quotes and inspirational parts of this book - using the questions DeWitt offers as ways to redirect anxiety, confusion, and gain clarity on my career (and personal) path.
I couldn't put the book down, and will be recommending this one for many women and men to pick up, read and work the system. Self-awareness as a leader is essential to know whether you are responding from a place of scarcity or possibility. This book would also be great for management to use to help their employees see other ways to approach colleagues, clients, and issues from a more optimistic side.
Well done, Andrea DeWitt. This is going to be one in my toolbox for a long time.

[Lee Murray · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book took a simple and efficient process and buried it in feminist jargon and concepts I didn’t know anyone still held as viable.

If you can live with the concept of the divine feminine as your goal, this book is for you. Secondly, I didn’t know that anyone still held to the concepts of masculine character traits, and I’m not sure how many women would buy into the concept that rationality is a strictly male characteristic and not batial to women.

The Name, Claim, Reframe concept is a valuable concept and is the basis for this book. However, the book is an attempt to teach you how to eliminate your negative emotions and incorporate positive emotions. Based on the precept that all people are wounded by others, beginning with their parents, the book devotes extensive time to teaching you how to overcome these negative experiences and improve your responses through Name, Claim, Reframe training.

Not exactly idea of leadership development, but everyone learns differently and has unique experiences.

Recommended

[Tammy · Rating 4 out of 5]

The passion of the author's life coaching to help others comes through each chapter. Filled with practical tips and guidance to make you think of how you treat yourself was enlightening for sure.

She guides the reader to Name those narratives you repeat to oneself, then Claim those thoughts and Reframe them into positive, truthful thoughts. No more negative self-talk. It wasn't easy at first, but with the effort to work through the book to make a change, it became more natural. Learned a lot about how I treat myself. Ouch!

Disclaimer: I received a Digital copy of the book with no expectation in return. The thoughts above are my own and I chose to share them.

[Crystal Furgerson]

Andrea Mein DeWitt uses an easy-to-follow formula to address the emotional triggers we all have. Check out her book, Name, Claim & Reframe Your Path to a Well-Lived Life. In her witty, insightful way she gives voice to those emotions and triggers everyone wants to change. Her path of naming the trigger/emotion, claiming it, and reframing it gives us all a new way of reacting.

[Michele Folan · Rating 5 out of 5]

The author uses humor and her own introspective journey that are so relatable. Establishing and identifying our core values is the first step to setting boundaries, which I really needed help doing. I loved the book!

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Name, Claim & Reframe: Your Path to a Well-Lived Life by Andrea DeWitt focuses on how we, especially women, can work toward becoming what DeWitt calls the Gentle Warrior. This book is geared toward women; however, many of the exercises and much of the information could be used by men. Accepting the truth about ourselves isn’t always easy, but when we focus on becoming more self-aware, we can learn how to take those things that trigger us and reframe them, so we are able to “reconcile” with ourselves. As you might expect, DeWitt goes into specifics about each step. The most significant thing for me was DeWitt’s explanation of feedback. Truly, if I can focus on that, my life will be much better. If you are interested in taking a good hard look at yourself, then this book gives you plenty of opportunities to do so. There are many exercises you can do to help clarify how you respond to situations, how to claim and tame your inner critic, and how to reframe. There are a few off-color words that I didn’t feel were necessary but that’s something I notice, and it may not bother anyone else. I received a copy of the book for review.