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If the name Elissa Wall sounds familiar, you may have met her in the Netflix docuseries “Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey.”

Released in June of , the four-part docuseries explores the polygamous Mormon offshoot known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), as well as the rise and fall of its now-incarcerated leader, Warren Jeffs.

Elissa Wall, one of several former FLDS members who appears in “Keep Sweet,” left the church at 19 and went on to give key testimony in the first trial of Warren Jeffs.

In this special episode of Embodied, Wall sits down with host Anita Rao to discuss her upbringing in the FLDS, her forced marriage at the age of 14 and her ongoing journey to re-establish a relationship to her own body after leaving the community.

Elissa Wall is a speaker, advocate, mother and author of the memoir “Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, an