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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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Freaky Friday (A Guest Post): What Every Therapist Should Consider

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 vers...

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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach

Jan 15, 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 f...

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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach

Dec 5, 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 follow...

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The Mamabear Approach (and introducing Mamabear Mondays)

JD Ouellette, Peer Coach

Nov 25, 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 ref...

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Not all holidays are happy ones: cope ahead for the coming season

JD Ouellette, Peer Coach

Oct 31, 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, c...

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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach

Sep 24, 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 w...

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You Have to See The Beast to Slay The Beast

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 diag...

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On the Wrong Track: A Layperson’s Explanation of Brain Reward System Malfunction in Anorexia Nervosa

JD Ouellette, Peer Coach

Aug 6, 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 s...

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On Words: Brain Restoration, Moving Target Weight, and Nutritional Rehabilitation

JD Ouellette, Peer Coach

Jul 30, 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 unde...

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College and Independence After an Eating Disorder: What the Experts Say

JD Ouellette, Peer Coach

Jul 24, 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 a...

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Eating Disorders 101 (and Toward a New Paradigm in Dealing with Metabolic Piece of Anorexia Nervosa)

JD Ouellette, Peer Coach

Jul 23, 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 c...

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10 Things Parents Wish Educators Knew About Eating Disorders

JD Ouellette, Peer Coach

Jul 17, 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 dis...

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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 D...

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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach

May 19, 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 t...

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