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

The Bombshell Recording | UAM Snapshot 40 02.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 40: Unleashing the Dragon Recording a conversation that dropped like a bombshell, I watched as the mask finally fell, revealing a web of deceit that had kept me captive for twenty-three years. 🎧 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:/...

The Line in the Sand | UAM Snapshot 39 01.05.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 39: A Cry for Grace I asked for a simple act of grace to save a marriage, only to be met with a stunning cruelty that finally gave me the courage to draw a sacred line in the sand. 🎧 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/u...

A Week of Mirrors | UAM Snapshot 38 30.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 38: A Week of Mirrors From the way we parked our cars to the embarrassing secret of our skin, a week of shared mirrors revealed that nature had kept its appointment with us despite fifty years of absence. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amaz...

Separation and Silence | UAM Snapshot 37 30.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 37: The Story I Never Knew I sat in the shadow of a story I never knew, learning that my arrival in the world was marked by a separation that would forever shape the landscape of my mother's silent prayers. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Am...

A Mother's Gratitude | UAM Snapshot 36 30.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 36: A Life in Pictures, A Heart in Pieces In a quiet lounge, I watched as the woman who gave me life traced the faces of the people who raised me, whispering a mother's gratitude for a journey she was never permitted to witness. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own...

The Secret Language | UAM Snapshot 35 29.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 35: Tea and Wonder Before we ever shared a cup of tea, a whimsical gesture from a sister's fingers pierced my heart, proving that even in our separation, we had always spoken the same secret language of humor. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book...

The Primary Reflection | UAM Snapshot 34 29.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 34: Baby, Come Home As our eyes met in the airport's din, the world around us levitated, leaving only the primary reflection of a soul that finally, after half a century, heard the words 'I see you.' 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon):...

A Bible and a Lie | UAM Snapshot 33 29.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 33: Thoughts Unraveling Through the crackle of a phone line, I discovered that the woman who gave me away was herself a foster child who had been forced to swear on a Bible that she would never come looking for me. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical...

The Reflection I Performed | UAM Snapshot 32 28.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 32: From Stranger to Sister Looking at a photo of the woman who gave me life, I searched her face for the reflection I had spent decades performing, only to find it in the smile of a sister I was about to call. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book...

The Rabbit Hole's End | UAM Snapshot 31 28.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 31: Falling into Wonderland A tiny seed of an email cracked my earth in two, revealing that my search was being mirrored by a sister I had spent a lifetime imagining on the side of a dusty road. 🎧 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...

Neurogenic Release | UAM Snapshot 30 28.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 30: Beyond the Birth Certificate While a bureaucratic request led to a deafening silence, my body began its own seismic shifting, trembling with the neurogenic release of stories it could no longer hold. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazo...

Hieroglyphs of the Heart | UAM Snapshot 29 27.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 29: A Daughter's Letter As the sun dipped below the Karoo hills, I sat in my car to write a letter to a woman I had spent fifty-one years rising to the surface to breathe without. 🎧 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...

A Sixty-Minute Embrace | UAM Snapshot 28 27.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 28: Angels of Reunion In a room vibrating with the unseen presence of angels, I was swept into a sixty-minute embrace that snapped the shackles of a lifetime's doubt. 🎧 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-...

The Midnight Fire | UAM Snapshot 27 27.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 27: A Life in Crisis Alone in a remote forest cabin under a full moon, I faced the agonizing silence of a life that was draining away faster than I could find the courage to replenish it. 🎧 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 Ghosts of Love | UAM Snapshot 26 26.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 26: The Grandparent Paradox I stood before the ghosts of my grandparents and felt a love so profound it shattered my mind's belief that abandonment was the only truth I would ever inherit. 🎧 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://myb...

The Sound of Tearing | UAM Snapshot 25 26.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 25: A House Divided Moving my life into a guest room on the eve of a new year, I realized that the chaos erupting in my home was the sound of stagnant energies finally being torn loose. 🎧 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...

Three Simple Words | UAM Snapshot 24 26.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 24: In the Knowing Field Sitting in a circle of twelve strangers, I heard three simple words that triggered an earthquake in my soul, finally making my adoption real, palpable, and heart-wrenching. 🎧 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...

Settling Ancient Debts | UAM Snapshot 23 25.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 23: Karmic Release I woke to a voice that declared my ancient debts settled, inviting me to step out of a duel of self-hate and into a DNA-shifting frequency I didn't yet know how to carry. 🎧 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://my...

Ashes of a Vow | UAM Snapshot 22 25.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 22: From Ashes to Awakening As the flames curled the edges of my prenuptial contract in the backyard, I felt the shackles of a twenty-year vow dissolve into the night air, leaving me reborn and nameless. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazo...

The Body's Warning | UAM Snapshot 21 25.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 21: Touchdown in Turmoil Gazing at the empty space where my wedding ring's stone used to be, I realized that the heavy weight of my swollen feet was simply the body's way of carrying a life I was no longer meant to lead. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the phy...

The Guardian of Love | UAM Snapshot 20 24.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 20: A Short Tail of Love In the small, feisty frame of a dog named Shortsy, I found a guardian who mirrored my own food-intolerant soul and taught me that some goodbyes are simply the beginning of a deeper presence. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical...

Decimated by a Monster | UAM Snapshot 19 24.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 19: Trapped in a Nightmare Watching a princess being decimated by a monster's manipulation, I found myself drowning in a twisted gratitude that it wasn't worse, while my soul screamed for an exit I couldn't yet see. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical...

A River of Sorrow | UAM Snapshot 18 24.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 18: My Gentle Giant Surrounded by the vibrant charm of Franschhoek, I watched my son reinvent himself, unaware that the road home would soon become a river of my own uncontainable sorrow. 🎧 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...

Howling Like a Wolf | UAM Snapshot 17 23.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 17: The Hell to Come As I howled like a prairie wolf into the rugged landscape of 'The Hell,' my heart knew what my mind refused to admit — that the coming year would burn everything I knew to the ground. 🎧 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 Prophetic Map | UAM Snapshot 16 23.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 16: Beyond the Forgotten Pages Retrieving seven buried journals from the dust of my past, I discovered that the words I once thought were a lie were actually a prophetic map back to my own soul. 🎧 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...

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