What the Scale Will Never Fix: A Real Talk on Body Image with Marisela Arechiga

About this episode

A raw conversation between two friends about body image and the cultural pressures surrounding it.

This one is personal. Not in the guest-on-a-stage kind of way. In the two-friends-sitting-down-telling-the-truth kind of way. In this episode of Amiga Handle Your Shit, Jackie Tapia turns the mic on herself and sits down with her friend Marisela Arechiga for a raw, unfiltered conversation about body image, the voices in our heads, and what it actually costs to grow up Latina in a culture that had opinions about your body before you did. Jackie opens up about a lifetime of body dysmorphia, from the nicknames she was given as a kid to the drastic diets she has cycled through as an adult, to the moment her own sister, a doctor, put a name to something Jackie already knew but had never said out loud. What makes this episode different is that Marisela is not just asking the questions. She is in it too. A lifelong athlete who spent years feeling underdeveloped on one end of the spectrum, and now, approaching 49, navigating perimenopause, muscle loss, and the particular frustration of doing everything right and still not seeing the number she wants. Two women, two completely different body stories, the same relentless inner critic. They talk about where these voices come from: the…

People in this episode

Host: Jacqueline Tapia

Guest: Marisela Arechiga

Topics covered

• body image
• Latina culture
• body dysmorphia
• perimenopause
• inner critic
• generational change

Keywords

• body image
• body dysmorphia
• Latina
• perimenopause
• inner critic
• generational change
• health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GLP

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