"Signe Darpinian has given us a much-needed guide to navigating menopause without shame or diet culture. With warmth, wisdom, and evidence-based insight, this book helps women understand their changing bodies and emotions while building a more peaceful relationship with food and self. A must-read for anyone ready to embrace midlife with compassion and confidence."Jenn Salib Huber RD, ND, CIEC, host of The Midlife Feast podcast and author of Eat To Thrive During Menopause: Managing Your Symptoms with Nourishing Foods"We can finally exhale! As a registered dietitian and eating disorder specialist, I am thrilled to find a menopause guide that I can recommend without the diet and fitness hype and the scales and belly-blasting looming in the center! How refreshing to find solid advice for navigating menopause that encourages self-trust and drops the body shaming and fear-mongering."Deb Benfield, MEd, RDN/LDN, RYT, author of Unapologetic Aging: How to Mend and Nourish Your Relationship with Your Body"As a menopause physician, my patients are always asking for resources to help them through this hormonal transition and all of the changes their bodies are experiencing. There is so much noise out there on social media and beyond promoting unsafe practices and I am grateful for Signe's book detailing evidence based approaches to health! This book is now part of the 'menopause library' I recommend for my patients!"Amy J Voedisch, MD, MS, MSCP, author of Estrogen, Interrupted: A Guide to Surviving and Thriving in Perimenopause"This book offers a thoughtful and supportive approach to navigating menopause without focusing on weight as a measure of health or worth. The author, Signe Darpinian - a therapist with experience in the weight inclusive space, provides practical guidance and compassionate insight to help readers feel more at home in their bodies during this transition. It’s a reassuring resource for anyone looking for an alternative to the usual weight-centered messages around menopause."Naomi Busch MD, MSCP, owner of Seattle Menopause Medicine"How I wish Signe’s book had been available as I made my journey through menopause! This book’s combination of factual medical information, enlightening personal stories, and nonjudgmental, wise, and gentle guidance makes it a must-read for all who wish to go through menopause in community rather than isolation. Menopause is a natural process, and Signe helps her readers find kindness for their changing bodies."Connie Sobczak, co-founder of The Body Positive and author of Embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!)"Have you ever opened a book and felt as if every word was written directly to and for you? Signe Darpinian’s warm, compassionate and candid book demystifies a phase of life few of us were ever taught about, standing in as a (highly knowledgeable) older sister who wants only to help readers–her collective “little sisters”--flourish in midlife and beyond. This book found me at the right moment in time–Ophelia is alive and well and experiencing hot flashes!--and I can’t wait to witness its impact on a generation of women. Culturally, individually, we NEED this book!"Sara Pipher Gilliam, co-author, Reviving Ophelia 25th Anniversary Edition"The time for menopause being a shameful problem for individual women to try and navigate, fix, or hide away on their own, instead of a universal experience deserving attention and care, is over. With books like this, there is no longer any need to feel shame, diet, or think there is something wrong with your body, or you. You and your body are not the problem. The problem has been lack of education, research, treatment, and community for women experiencing menopause. (Also, if you are grieving, the symptoms peri/menopause and grief are shockingly similar. You're not going crazy. You're grieving, and in peri/menopause.) Thank God/dess, and Signe, that problem is now being addressed in this book!"Linda Shanti McCabe, PsyD, author of The Recovery Mama's Guide to your Eating Disorder Recovery in Pregnancy and Postpartum and After Your Person Dies"As more and more wellness influencers promote risky "solutions" for the symptoms of the menopause transition, it's harder than ever for midlife women to find guidance they can trust. Thank goodness for Darpinian's book, which provides empathetic, evidence-based guidance for women to take care of their physical and emotional well-being during this phase of life. No gimmicks, no fad diets, just expert advice shared with wit and wisdom."Oona Hanson, parent educator"Finally—a menopause guide that ditches the diets, quick fixes, and shame. As an eating disorder specialist, I’m grateful for this weight-inclusive, compassionate resource that helps women navigate midlife with self-acceptance and tools to manage changing bodies, sleep, emotions, and more!"Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CSSD, CEDS-C, author of How to Nourish Yourself Through an Eating Disorder: Recovery for Adults with the Plate-by-Plate Approach®"Understanding menopause is crucial for providing effective and empathetic care, either as a treatment provider or as a friend or partner. A Woman's Guide to Menopause, Body Image, and Emotional Well-being at Midlife skillfully addresses the physical and emotional changes women experience during this transition–knowledge and attunement that are foundational to cultivating stronger relationships, resulting in better therapeutic outcomes."Riley Nickols, PhD, CEDS-C, counseling and sport psychologist, founder of Mind Body Endurance LLC"Perimenopause can be such a confusing time for many women, and with the lack of research, as well as the overabundance of information, it can make it very challenging to know the right path to take in helping to mitigate one's symptoms. Signe's book, A Women's Guide to Menopause, Body Image and Emotional Well-being at Midlife is a true godsend. Very rarely can you find information discussing this transformative period without the discussion of GLP-1 for example or the need to do intermittent fasting, which is not necessarily appropriate for everyone. Signe, with her background and experience writing about eating disorders and disordered eating, turns that same lens onto this period of one's life and looks at helping us understand why the change in hormones causes an increase in adiposity or more joint pain thus limiting movement. Looking at how we can eat, move and bring in more positive and healthy relationships are all important tenets in this book and can help build a strong foundation as we enter this new stage of life. This book helps to solidify that this does not have to be a scary and anxiety-provoking time but one of growth, transformation and knowing that you are not alone on this journey."Anietie Ukpe-Wallace, PT, DPT, author of Tending to Your Womb: A Journey of Joy, Grief and Self-Discovery
