Build a Better Body Image Toolbox with Maria Luque, PhD (Episode 84)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The menopause transition can leave a minefield of body image issues in its wake. Some research shows that as few as 12 percent of us are satisfied with our bodies at this time of life. That’s a problem, as poor body image is also linked to mental health issues like depression. We can’t wave a magic wand and make them go away, but we can equip ourselves with tools to make them a whole lot better. This week we build that toolbox with menopause fitness expert Maria Luque, PhD.

Maria is a fitness expert, health science professor, writer, and self-described menopause nerd with over 20 years of experience. She’s the creator of Fitness in Menopause, a company dedicated to helping women navigate the challenges and rewards of menopause. Her course “Menopausal Fitness: Training the Menopausal Client” is a NASM, AFAA, and ACE- accredited continuing education course for fitness professionals. She holds graduate and post-graduate degrees in health sciences and teaches at the College of Health and Human Services at TUI. You can learn more about Maria and her work at https://www.fitnessinmenopause.com/

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help
0:21.2	you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.3	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.9	So I hope you all are well.
0:36.0	And I just want to take a moment and share with you that the book Next Level that just came out by Dr. Stacey Sims and myself hit the USA Today bestselling books list the week at debuted.
0:49.4	And I only bring that up because it shows that we are not alone. When I started this thing,
0:57.9	I was pretty confident that there were a lot of you out there who were not being talked to
1:02.2	because I felt like I wasn't being talked to. But to see how many of you there are and how
1:08.6	awesome you all are and what a force you all are, that is simply
1:14.8	amazing. And I thank you for being here from the bottom of my heart. And I never, ever,
1:21.0	ever take that for granted. And I just wanted to say that. Okay. So this week, we have what I think is an important conversation. It's all
1:30.9	about body image. One of the things that I find most heartbreaking in the hip play not pause group
1:38.3	is how awful so many women feel about themselves. The battle with body image is real, and it can be at its
1:46.6	most brutal during the menopause transition. And I'll be honest, I find this topic really challenging,
1:54.2	not only because of my own personal history and body image issues, but because the whole subject
2:00.3	is a viper pit. So much of it is grounded
2:03.4	in our cultural perceptions around weight, and those cultural perceptions and how we feel about them
2:09.3	can vary by race, and women of all sizes and shapes and walks of life can suffer from body
2:15.3	image issues for different reasons. And whenever I wade into
2:19.0	these waters, I try my best to be thoughtful and sensitive to all that. But man, it's just a loaded
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