Elmarie Arnold

Un-Adoptically Me: A Terrifying and Liberating Memoir — Audiobook Narrated by Author Elmarie Arnold

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Award-winning adoption trauma memoir by Elmarie Arnold — narrated by the author herself. “Some books don’t just tell a story — they demand to be felt.” Born Baby X — a soul without a name, a heart without a home — Elmarie Arnold spent a lifetime navigating the primal wound of adoption. Through 88 intimate snapshots , she lays bare: The unseen wounds The silent battles The lifelong search for self, truth, and belonging Raw. Intense. Devastatingly honest. This is not a performance. It is a reckoning. _______________________________________________________________________________ What listeners a...

Author

Elmarie Arnold

Category

Society

Podcast website

foreverfree.co.za

Latest episode

Jun 23, 2026

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Episodes

Wings Unfurled | UAM Snapshot 65 27.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 65: The Space Between Us In an elegant room where sunlight bathed my vulnerability, I watched a veil lift to reveal that my daughter was no longer a princess lost, but a woman standing with her own wings unfurled. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical b...

The Necessary Apology | UAM Snapshot 64 26.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 64: Every Mother's Dream Standing at the gates of a prestigious wine estate, I had to decide if I would cling to the shattered mirror of our past or finally set us both free by whispering a single, necessary apology. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physica...

Shining in the Shadows | UAM Snapshot 63 25.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 63: Crossroads of Choice I reached out to bridge a chasm, only to hear a son's devastating verdict that reminded me my radiance must remain unshakeable even when my children choose to stay in the shadows. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amaz...

Stalking a Predator | UAM Snapshot 62 24.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 62: Beyond the Line While zebras grazed on the slopes above our sanctuary, I had to draw a stick through the sand to decide if I would continue to bankroll a predator who viewed my survival as his own entitlement. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical b...

A Punch to the Gut | UAM Snapshot 61 23.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 61: And Then Came Tomorrow Just as I began to saunter hand-in-hand in the light of freedom, a box of returned childhood memories arrived like a punch to the gut, reopening the primal wound of my first abandonment. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical b...

The Grand Symphony | UAM Snapshot 60 22.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 60: Free at Last Standing on a farm that had been waiting for its own christening, I realized that my liberation was being orchestrated by a grand symphony that had already written its name in my journals years ago. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical...

Shattering the Axis | UAM Snapshot 59 21.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 59: Friday's Reckoning I pierced the solar system and returned breathless to find that a single sentence in a judge's chamber had finally shattered the axis of a twenty-three-year lie. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon): https://mybook....

Moondust and Miracles | UAM Snapshot 58 20.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 58: Moondust and Miracles In a world of secret charades and emotional war zones, I discovered a cosmic symmetry in our birth years that mirrored a list of non-negotiables I hadn't even dared to fully dream. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Am...

Whispered by the Stars | UAM Snapshot 57 19.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 57: Soulbound under the Supermoon Beneath the deep reddish hue of a blood moon, two souls converged in a slow, sensual glide toward a contract that had been whispered by the stars long before we met. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon):...

Seduction by Screenshot | UAM Snapshot 56 18.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 56: Oudtshoorn Says She Misses You Amidst a weekday wilderness of legal summons and anxiety, a single photo of ostrich feathers became a masterclass in seduction by screenshot. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon): https://mybook.to/un-ad...

Haunted Echoes | UAM Snapshot 55 17.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 55: Sanctuary She never knew her dwelling places were castles until a bolt from the blue lifted her drawbridges and delicately laid her haunted echoes to rest. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon): https://mybook.to/un-adoptically-me 🛒 O...

The Shore of Possibility | UAM Snapshot 54 16.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 54: The Promise of Strand Beach Walking along a shore of endless possibility, I made a vow to never again surrender my autonomy to anyone who didn't mirror back my own inherent beauty and truth. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon): https...

Pulverized to Powder | UAM Snapshot 53 15.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 53: From Judgment to Grace As I sat in the quiet of a new life, a message from my son eviscerated my heart, proving that pieces of my soul had to be pulverized to powder before I could move into a realm of pure grace. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physic...

The Ultimate Sacrifice | UAM Snapshot 52 14.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 52: When Love Means Letting Go In the silence of an empty house, I had to make the ultimate sacrifice of love, realizing that protecting my companions from a future of suffering meant letting them go before I left. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical...

The Cosmic Platform | UAM Snapshot 51 13.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 51: Welcome Home Standing on a cosmic platform between two towns, I received a message of arrival that synchronized perfectly with a prophetic video I had recorded when I had no buyers and no hope. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon): ht...

Dying to Live | UAM Snapshot 50 12.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 50: Yours Quotefully Forged in the depths of my being, these pearls of wisdom became a chronicle of a soul that refused to be emptied with a teaspoon. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon): https://mybook.to/un-adoptically-me 🛒 Own the ph...

Clandestine Mission | UAM Snapshot 49 11.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 49: Unshackling My Soul While my husband sat barricaded behind a wall of his own making, I executed a clandestine mission to reclaim the only thing he could never touch — my own spirit. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon): https://mybook...

The Final Cup | UAM Snapshot 48 10.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 48: Of Butterflies and Battlefields I learned that butterflies are often winged on the battlefields of the mind, and that the poison my abusers intended for me was destined to be their own final cup. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon):...

Liquid Moonlight | UAM Snapshot 47 09.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 47: The Art of Surrender While my outer world sat in consecrated ruins, I found myself in a state of liquid moonlight, birthing a butterfly from a chrysalis that had been cracked wide open by chaos. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon): h...

Dancing in the Flames | UAM Snapshot 46 08.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 46: Becoming Alice I woke to an unfamiliar euphoria, realizing that the vibrant little girl I had suppressed for decades was finally ready to dance in the flames of her own unbridled joy. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon): https://mybo...

The Speckled Horse | UAM Snapshot 45 07.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 45: A Hero on Horseback Just as I had sworn off men forever, a celestial message flashed in red letters, warning me that a speckled horse was carrying a man who would finally teach me the meaning of unconditional love. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physi...

Walking Among Wolves | UAM Snapshot 44 06.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 44: Beyond the Veil Guided by the breath of a leaf on the breeze, I walked among fifty-two wolves to find a compass materializing within my chest, beckoning me toward a truest self I had never dared to name. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (A...

Eye of the Needle | UAM Snapshot 43 05.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 43: The Domino Effect As the first legal domino fell, I found myself going through the eye of a needle, stripped bare of everything and everyone I thought defined my world. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon): https://mybook.to/un-adopti...

A Warrior Born | UAM Snapshot 42 04.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 42: A Woman Scorned, A Warrior Born Compiling three files of a twenty-year history, I realized I didn't want a worrier; I wanted a warrior who could see through the cunning tactics of a ruthless opponent. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amaz...

The Whisper of Freedom | UAM Snapshot 41 03.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 41: The Whisper of Freedom The decision didn't come with fanfare, but in a small whisper at a roadside village that asked if I still wanted to be married to a man who treated my soul like dead weight. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon):...

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