The Mission of the Duke Center for Eating Disorders Online Community
• Feb 18, 2021
You or someone you love is struggling with a potentially life-threatening eating disorder. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a community of individuals who understand what you are going through, who are there to give you encouragement or advice from their personal experience – without judgment, and to...
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Girls with autism may stop eating to blunt social pain
• Dec 13, 2019
The teenage years are a tumultuous time for many individuals, and even more so for those with autism spectrum disorder, for whom the sensory and social complexity of adolescence can be especially overwhelming. Research suggests that social difficulties may lead adolescent girls with autism...
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Comments and Adaptive Meaning Making
Making meaning of unwanted comments from others • Oct 24, 2019
Could you imagine if we all took the time every day to censor every word that came out of our mouths? Conversations would take forever! We say all sorts of things without thinking that can have neutral, positive, and negative interpretations. We're not trying to be malicious (hopefully!), but sometimes...
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Healing on Paper
Journaling to release our emotions • Aug 26, 2019
Some emotional burdens can feel too large and cumbersome to carry on our own. Whether it is extreme joy, intense heartbreak, overwhelming fear — we often feel a natural desire to share our emotions with others in order not to experience the enormity of them alone. However, when these emotions stem...
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Positive Body Image
Body Appreciation, Attunement, and Beyond • Jul 26, 2019
When you think about your body, are your thoughts positive, negative, or a mix of both? Do you feel pride, shame, or something in between? Do you feel in tune with your body, like you can sense what it needs? All of these questions tap into different aspects of body image, an umbrella term for all...
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