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 magazines, the celebrity postpartum bodies, the offhand comments from coaches and family that lodged somewhere deep and never fully left. They talk about how they are raising the next generation differently. And they get into the practical stuff too, GLP treatments, microdosing, and why attacking the physical without doing the mental work will keep you running a race with no finish line.
Tune in to episode 283 of Amiga Handle Your Shit for the body image conversation most women are having in their heads but never out loud.
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