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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
Sep 10, 20212 min read
Free Sibling Zoom Support Group
ETA: This group is currently on hiatus due to Bella's Medical School schedule. Kym Advocates has sibling resources and all families who...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
Apr 5, 20201 min read
Free Zoom Support Group
ETA: This group is no longer active. I do run this group through Equip and would love to have you join us Thursdays from 4:30 to 5:30...
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JD Ouellette, Peer Coach
Feb 16, 20205 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 201912 min read
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, 20194 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20196 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20194 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20194 min read
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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