CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses sexual assault. Not in graphic detail, but please listen accordingly.

For 19 years, Lizzie Ens lived in one of the most conservative Amish sects in America: the Swartzentruber Amish. Last week you learned about her upbringing and all facets of living a life off the grid with no electricity, no indoor plumbing, and very little autonomy over her own life.

In Part 2, the horse-and-buggy postcard version of Amish life disappears fast.

Lizzie takes us inside the bizarre dating ritual called "bundling," and into the darker corners of the community — sexual assault, shunning, suppression, and the impossible weight of knowing that leaving means leaving everything behind. Including her twin sister.

Eventually, she realizes something terrifying: if she doesn't escape now… she may never escape at all.

What follows is one of the wildest escape stories we've ever covered.

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RESOURCES:

• RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)
• Bailing Out Benji

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FIND LIZZIE:

Instagram: @lizzieens_wellness / TikTok: @lizzieh_wellness

Book: Amish Renegade: The Anthropology of an Amish Girl Turned Global CEO

Website: undietyou.com

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