During this tough time (and getting tougher before it gets easier), I am going to offer a free eating disorders family support group Zoom check-in/processing...

The video to accompany this post is found here on YouTube. We have all probably seen the movie Freaky Friday, whether it be the 2003 version starring Lindsay...

For as much as we wish things were never about the scale, it can be a helpful relapse prevention and monitoring tool. It definitely was for us. Dealing with ...

The video to accompany this post is here. A common thread I encounter among families who have been in the fight a long time (often following a pattern of get...

My friend Katie Maki aka Mamabear is an amazing source of nutritional rehabilitation recipes and lived experience, and her ability to refeed and get her daug...

Video to accompany this post found here. The very things that make the holidays special and (when things are at their best) joy-filled, can be land mines whe...

This was first a post in a closed Facebook community, International Eating Disorder Family Support; I am taking it public as it was very well received and a ...

Note: This is my experience as the mother of someone with restrictive anorexia who is in solid, long-lasting recovery after an early diagnosis; we had access...

-JD Ouellette, JD Ouellette Peer Coaching -Illustrated by Lilac Vylette Maldonado This is the explanation I use with families to give a short primer on how a...

On Verbiage I am a lover of language; one of my trademark coaching methods is use of analogy (I can almost always find something you understand well to compa...

This is crunch time for really getting college plans finalized - and a process that should include strong boundaries around full health as the number one pri...

JD OUELLETTE PEER COACHING/JDOUELLETTE.COM Eating disorders are serious, genetic, biological, brain-based illnesses with a psychosocial component that seem t...

1. Eating disorders are real and deadly illnesses and having one is not a choice. Your reaction, as an administrator or teacher, to a disclosure of an eating...

With my daughter at the beginning of her return to health in 2012 This post was originally written for the University of California San Diego Eating Disorder...

“Expert by Experience” is a title I embrace not just because I have lived, parented, taught, and helped my child beat anorexia; it is a title that recognizes...