I guess there's no weight limit on the Insane Train

To end fatphobia, we need to dismantle Western civilization, says Philly therapist Sonalee Rashatwar
The activist-therapist, who posts as @thefatsextherapist on Instagram, discusses the philosophies behind her popular posts.

Sonalee Rashatwar, 31, nonbinary, of South, N.J., a West Philadelphia-based therapist who specializes in trauma, sexuality and fat positivity. Rashatwar shares her experience and knowledge about being someone who is fat in the world on Thursday, June 27, 2019. “All of my work is to better understand my experience,” Rashatwar said. “I enjoy trauma work and I’m good at being still and being an anchor for someone. It allows me to talk about the stuff I care about.”
Sonalee Rashatwar, 31, nonbinary, of South, N.J., a West Philadelphia-based therapist who specializes in trauma, sexuality and fat positivity. Rashatwar shares her experience and knowledge about being someone who is fat in the world on Thursday, June 27, 2019. “All of my work is to better understand my experience,” Rashatwar said. “I enjoy trauma work and I’m good at being still and being an anchor for someone. It allows me to talk about the stuff I care about.”Read more
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Cassie Owens
by Cassie Owens
Updated Jul 3, 2019
Sonalee Rashatwar hadn’t planned on being a therapist growing up. Her career path, she explained while sitting in the waiting room of Radical Therapy Center, the practice she co-owns in West Philadelphia, just kind of happened.

Rashatwar, now 31, endured an abusive relationship in her early 20s. After college, she started volunteering for a domestic-violence response team, an experience that showed her that she enjoyed working with other people who had lived through traumas.

“All of my work is to better understand what I’ve experienced,” said Rashatwar, who graduated from Temple University in 2011. “It’s almost like I’m healing younger versions of myself by trying to find language to describe what happened.”

As the fat-positivity movement has gained momentum, so, too, have debates around how fat folks should lead healthy lives. Rashatwar, though, considers how sizeism is affected by racism, misogyny, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism, and she counsels people against intentional weight loss.

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