Years ago, during a season of healing from a chronic illness, I was nudged by a practitioner to give up sweet potatoes. This was a terrifying thought, like being asked to cut off my arm. At that point I was eating sweet potatoes at least twice a day. They were the only carbohydrates that my body could tolerate (or so I thought). To let them go I would j…
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