JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
Free Sibling Zoom Support Group
I am so excited to share this! My good friend, MamaBear Katie Maki, has not one but two amazing daughters (and a great son as well), and...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Apr 5, 2020
- 1 min
Free Zoom Support Group
During this tough time (and getting tougher before it gets easier), I am going to offer a free eating disorders family support group Zoom...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Feb 16, 2020
- 5 min
Freaky Friday (A Guest Post): What Every Therapist Should Consider
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...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Jan 14, 2020
- 3 min
On Goals and Metrics
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...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Dec 4, 2019
- 3 min
Normal* is as Normal Does: A Philosophy
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...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Nov 24, 2019
- 12 min
The Mamabear Approach (and introducing Mamabear Mondays)
My friend Katie Maki aka Mamabear is an amazing source of nutritional rehabilitation recipes and lived experience, and her ability to...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Oct 30, 2019
- 4 min
Not all holidays are happy ones: cope ahead for the coming season
Video to accompany this post found here. The very things that make the holidays special and (when things are at their best) joy-filled,...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Sep 23, 2019
- 3 min
Adaptive Eating
This was first a post in a closed Facebook community, International Eating Disorder Family Support; I am taking it public as it was very...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Sep 11, 2019
- 6 min
You Have to See The Beast to Slay The Beast
Note: This is my experience as the mother of someone with restrictive anorexia who is in solid, long-lasting recovery after an early...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Aug 5, 2019
- 3 min
On the Wrong Track: A Layperson’s Explanation of Brain Reward System Malfunction in Anorexia Nervosa
-JD Ouellette, JD Ouellette Peer Coaching -Illustrated by Lilac Vylette Maldonado This is the explanation I use with families to give a...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Jul 29, 2019
- 2 min
On Words: Brain Restoration, Moving Target Weight, and Nutritional Rehabilitation
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...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Jul 23, 2019
- 2 min
College and Independence After an Eating Disorder: What the Experts Say
This is crunch time for really getting college plans finalized - and a process that should include strong boundaries around full health...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Jul 22, 2019
- 3 min
Eating Disorders 101 (and Toward a New Paradigm in Dealing with Metabolic Piece of Anorexia Nervosa)
JD OUELLETTE PEER COACHING/JDOUELLETTE.COM Eating disorders are serious, genetic, biological, brain-based illnesses with a psychosocial...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Jul 16, 2019
- 4 min
10 Things Parents Wish Educators Knew About Eating Disorders
1. Eating disorders are real and deadly illnesses and having one is not a choice. Your reaction, as an administrator or teacher, to a...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- Jul 8, 2019
- 3 min
Panicked to Proactive
With my daughter at the beginning of her return to health in 2012 This post was originally written for the University of California San...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
- May 18, 2019
- 4 min
On Expertise
“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...
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