JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Sep 10, 20212 minFree Sibling Zoom Support GroupI 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...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Apr 5, 20201 minFree Zoom Support GroupDuring this tough time (and getting tougher before it gets easier), I am going to offer a free eating disorders family support group Zoom...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Feb 16, 20205 minFreaky Friday (A Guest Post): What Every Therapist Should ConsiderThe video to accompany this post is found here on YouTube. We have all probably seen the movie Freaky Friday, whether it be the 2003...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Jan 15, 20203 minOn Goals and MetricsFor as much as we wish things were never about the scale, it can be a helpful relapse prevention and monitoring tool. It definitely was...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Dec 5, 20193 minNormal* is as Normal Does: A PhilosophyThe video to accompany this post is here. A common thread I encounter among families who have been in the fight a long time (often...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Nov 25, 201912 minThe 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...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Oct 31, 20194 minNot all holidays are happy ones: cope ahead for the coming seasonVideo to accompany this post found here. The very things that make the holidays special and (when things are at their best) joy-filled,...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Sep 24, 20193 minAdaptive 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...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Sep 11, 20196 minYou Have to See The Beast to Slay The BeastNote: This is my experience as the mother of someone with restrictive anorexia who is in solid, long-lasting recovery after an early...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Aug 6, 20193 minOn 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...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Jul 30, 20192 minOn 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...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Jul 24, 20192 minCollege and Independence After an Eating Disorder: What the Experts SayThis is crunch time for really getting college plans finalized - and a process that should include strong boundaries around full health...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Jul 23, 20193 minEating 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...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Jul 17, 20194 min10 Things Parents Wish Educators Knew About Eating Disorders1. Eating disorders are real and deadly illnesses and having one is not a choice. Your reaction, as an administrator or teacher, to a...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach Jul 8, 20193 minPanicked to ProactiveWith my daughter at the beginning of her return to health in 2012 This post was originally written for the University of California San...
JD Ouellette, Peer Coach May 19, 20194 minOn 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...