Posted on 07/08/2019 3:44:30 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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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Put the plate down and move away! I guess I have “fatphobia”...I’m afraid she might sit on me.
The Church of the Immoral Fatso incessantly keens, like a grieving banshee, that every fat deposit is punishment for the loathsome perversion of over-eating, than which no sin is greater. Every fatso is guilty! Every fatso must be punished! All scientific findings to the contrary must be dismissed with scorn.
It makes you feel better physically, allows you to be more active, raises you self-esteem and body image and generally puts a new spring in your step.
As my tagline says, "Been there. Done that."
Ye Gods, that hurts. Please, people, don’t become overweight. Too much programming and not much exercise is just plain dumb.
Sonalee Rashatwar
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Better idea, remove all non-westerners.
yes! I don’t need a trainer, I need someone to follow me around and slap food from my hands. and I swear to God, I never ever cared about food when i was younger. Now I look forward to eating later when I am eating now.
Yeah, the ones who walked here from Honduras and still weigh 350 pounds.
I had a feeling this was the brain-fart of a heifer. I’d say, pound-for-pound, she is dumber than most of her contemporaries.
We need a "you're not eating again, are you?" monitor. Great idea.
If Western Civilization ended these whiners would be the first to miss it. Look what is happening in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
She doesn’t like being seen as a fat slob so she desires to destroy Western Civilization rather than lose weight. If that is not proof of a serious mental illness I cant imagine what is.
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