‍A Woman's Guide to Menopause, Body Image, and Emotional Well-being at Midlife is the definitive primer for all things midlife and menopause, offering anticipatory guidance and research-based strategies. Harnessing her trademark curiosity and relatable wit, author Signe Darpinian helps women navigate the most common menopause symptoms, body changes, and mental health and emotional challenges, and tackles love, sex and body positivity through a weight-inclusive lens. Packed with real life stories and expert advice, this book empowers women to cut through diet-culture’s harmful messaging and foster their own authentic well-being and joy.

Pre-order available through Routledge October 2025.

In a world fraught with diet-culture and weight stigma, many parents worry about their child's relationship with their body and food. Raising Body Positive Teens: A Parent's Guide to Diet-Free Living, Exercise and Body Image is an invaluable resource allowing parents to take proactive actions in promoting a friendship with food, and preventative actions to minimize the risk factors for the development of eating disorders, particularly when early signs of disordered eating, excessive exercise, or body dissatisfaction have been noticed. It provides clear strategies and tools with a practical focus to gently encourage parents and teens to have a peaceful relationship with food and exercise by centralizing joy and health. Coming from a therapist, a dietician, and an adolescent medicine physician, with insightful case studies from an array of young people from different backgrounds, this multidisciplinary author team delivers friendly, strategic guidance based in a wealth of expertise.

No Weigh! A Teen's Guide to Positive Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom has everything you need to achieve connected eating, body positivity and balanced exercise. It will help you stay well informed about how bodies change emotionally and physically in the teen years, and why good nutrition is critical for growth and development. It debunks any myths about diets and 'forbidden' foods and also gives you the tools and strategies to avoid potential triggers of disordered eating.
Coming from a therapist, a dietician, and an adolescent medicine physician, with insightful case studies from an array of young people from different backgrounds, this multidisciplinary author team delivers friendly, strategic guidance based in a wealth of expertise.

Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Eating Disorders Specialist. She is also the host of Therapy Rocks! a personal growth podcast. She is the author of No Weigh!, Raising Body Positive Teens, and a forthcoming book, A Woman's Guide to Menopause, Body Image, and Emotional Well-being at Midlife, due out in December 2025. Signe is the past president of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (iaedp™) SF Bay Area Chapter. Signe is also a public speaker, and over the past several years, she's been recognized by various organizations for her accomplishments in women's health and business while also being requested for speaking engagements at renowned institutions like top-rated Rancho La Puerta Spa in Mexico, Stanford University and Pinterest Headquarters.
Signe provides tele-health in the state of California, follow her on instagram @noweighguide and @therapyrockspodcast.

Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CSSD, CEDS-C specializes in adolescent nutrition, eating disorders and sports nutrition. She is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian and a Board-Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics from the San Francisco Bay Area. She has consulted for the Oakland Athletics, Golden State Warriors, NY Jets, and NY Islanders. She is a frequent lecturer to schools and sports teams, emphasizing a Health at Every Size Approach®, while integrating nutrition practices that are sustainable and practical. She is the co-author of How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder, No Weigh!, Raising Body Positive Teens, and How to Nourish Yourself Through an Eating Disorder. Follow her on Instagram at @wendy_sterling and @platebyplateapproach or Twitter: @WendyMSRD.  For more on her practice, check out her website.

Shelley Aggarwal MS, MD, is a board-certified Pediatrician and Adolescent Medicine Sub-Specialist. She treats medically complex teens and young adults, and consults on a variety of youth-specific health issues including adolescent development, the management of eating disorders, reproductive health, the needs of the chronically ill child, weight-neutral approaches to wellbeing, and medical complications related to mental health conditions, to name a few. Working effectively in a multidisciplinary model is key in adolescent health and Dr. Aggarwal works in close collaboration with a variety of specialists and mental health providers to align goals and provide holistic care. She is also the co-author of No Weigh! and Raising Body Positive Teens.

‍Dr. Aggarwal has worked with premiere academic institutions and continues to be teaching faculty with Stanford Children's Health and UCSF-Fresno. As an adolescent health expert, she has spoken to small groups of parents and teens about youth well being and also presented at conferences on scholarly topics. She has provided on-the-ground care with local and international non-profits, volunteering in places such as Mongolia, Cambodia and Mexico to name a few, and she has interned with agencies such as the WHO. Currently, she is the Medical Director of clinics serving justice involved youth. Her career and life is a work in progress and increasingly defined by work related to bridging health disparities and aligning with youth and families on building sustained and sustainable wellbeing.