It’s time for women to stop beating themselves up and make peace with their bodies. Visit www.seventeen.com and sign the Body Peace Treaty as the first step in your struggle for inner happiness with your outer appearance!

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Body Image Expert Jess Weiner offers tips for mothers to help keep their own body issues to themselves and promote a positive body image in their daughters.

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According to self-esteem expert, Jessica Weiner, eating disorders are a serious mental health disease that impacts our best and brightest. Mothers, sisters, cousins, best friends, and boyfriends can all be susceptible to this disease. It is an equal opportunity offender - reaching all races, classes, and genders. Over 10 million women and 1 million men are affected by eating disorders in this country. So, odds are you or someone you know is struggling with this issue.

Today's episode deals with the very emotional but important issue of eating disorders treatment and recovery. It was important that Tyra and Jessica went behind the scenes on this issue and here's why:

Eating disorders are a TREATABLE disease! You can get better and you can recover!

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How your mother feels about her own body may be the greatest factor in determining how you feel about yours. But when mom’s feeling insecure, that doesn’t mean you have to. Body Image Expert Jess Weiner offers these tips for young women dealing with a judgmental mother.

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If you are struggling with your weight and you feel powerless to your addiction to food, visit www.oa.com.

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Posted by The Tyra Banks Show at January 7, 2008 1:41 PM | Permalink

Psychotherapist, Dr. Garry Corgiat, is an expert on addiction and offers this insight into addiction and obsessive bahavior.

1. Remember all addictions don't start out as an addiction, they start out as behavior that makes us feel good, or takes away our focus on what makes us feel bad. It is an action that relieves our pain and anxiety, or distracts us from something else in our lives, like low self esteem, a bad relationship, or a bad job. An addiction is a behavioral disease that grows stronger over time.

2. There is a crossover point when we can't stop the behavior anymore, even if we want to, wish we could, or think we should. What we once could control, now has control of us. We start to accommodate to it by lying, and keeping secrets to support continuing it. We lie to ourselves by rationalizing or denying, and we hide our behavior from others because we know down deep inside that there is something wrong with it. Still we can't stop thinking about it, or doing it.

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Posted by The Tyra Banks Show at January 4, 2008 7:06 PM | Permalink

Transgender people often feel as though they are trapped in the wrong body — they were born one sex but feel more like another. Dr. Marci Bowers offers this information for people who are transgender and their loved ones.

- Transgender is a biological phenomenon.

- People have turned to alcohol, suicide, religion, shock therapy to suppress those feelings, but the feelings don’t go away.

- Being transgender is different from being gay because one is the discussion of sexuality and the other is the discussion of gender. Sexuality is whom you’re attracted to, whereas gender is who you are internally – the concept of male or female.

For People Struggling With Their Gender:

- Go to support groups and find common ground where people share the same feelings. Then proceed to a therapist to get help in finding your true identity. But most importantly, be true to who you are as a person, no matter what others say.

For Family:

- Imagine yourself in his/her position.

- Get to know them and realize they are finding who they are and how to be more comfortable being a certain way, even if it is not a way you agree with.

- Learn and educate yourself and open your heart.

- Parents should be patient and nonjudgmental.

To find local support groups, visit www.transgender.org

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Posted by The Tyra Banks Show at January 1, 2008 8:00 PM | Permalink

Dr. Sawyer sets the record straight on sexually transmitted diseases.

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Posted by The Tyra Banks Show at November 14, 2007 1:46 PM | Permalink

Keep reading "Attack Your Cramps Before They Attack You" »

Posted by The Tyra Banks Show at November 5, 2007 2:14 PM | Permalink

Tyra’s lady docs Dr. Debby, Dr. Donnica and Dr. Francis get you the answers you need.

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