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

From Victim to Victor | UAM Snapshot 15 23.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 15: From Victim to Victor Amidst the comedy of a breaking-down van and a crumbling life, a single moment on a stage rewrote my destiny from a story of what happened to me to what I would do with 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): h...

Forgot How to Breathe | UAM Snapshot 14 22.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 14: Beyond the Chaos For years, I walked on eggshells in a house where silence was a weapon and survival was a performance I perfected until I forgot how to breathe. 🎧 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-m...

Screaming at a Silent Sky | UAM Snapshot 13 22.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 13: The Aftermath of Betrayal Beneath the weight of a monstrous betrayal, I found myself face-to-face with Divinity on a garden bench, screaming at a sky that had remained painfully silent while my child suffered. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical b...

The Shrapnel of Silence | UAM Snapshot 12 22.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 12: The Shadows We Keep Standing in the wreckage of a son's stolen childhood, I had to find the words to apologize for a silence I didn't even know I was keeping. 🎧 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...

The Hesitant "No" | UAM Snapshot 11 21.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 11: From Hartenbos to Forever The greatest gift I ever received was a man's hesitant 'no,' a three-month delay that eventually paved the way for the only home I would ever truly know. 🎧 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.t...

The Fragmenting World | UAM Snapshot 10 21.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 10: How Could You?! A soul shredded by secrets, I watched from above as my son's fragmenting world incinerated the very fabric of the roof I thought was a sanctuary. 🎧 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-m...

Ink of the Soul | UAM Snapshot 9 21.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 9: Ink of the Soul Standing in the Oudtshoorn veld, I watched as a name I had never heard — Eljoshijka — spilled from my pen to reconcile the simultaneous death and birth of my existence. 🎧 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 Prison of the Womb | UAM Snapshot 8 20.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 8: Born to Search In a room filled with rivers of tears, the walls of my adult defenses dissolved into a hypnotherapeutic vision of a womb that felt more like a prison. 🎧 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-adopticall...

Nine Sentences of Cold Ink | UAM Snapshot 7 20.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 7: Fuck You, Too! Nine sentences of cold, bureaucratic ink arrived to slice through fifty years of sacred fantasy, reducing the woman who gave me life to a biological entity with a 'Standard 8' education. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amaz...

Emotional Famine | UAM Snapshot 6 20.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 6: Motherhood Unscripted While the world mourned a fallen princess, I cradled my own, unaware that the umbilical cord twice-wrapped around her neck was the precursor to a life of needles and pain. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazon): htt...

The Soul's Original Face | UAM Snapshot 5 19.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 5: The Unasked Question Beneath the adoration of a whirlwind romance, a celestial banner unfurled in my soul with a single, devastating query: why did you detest my every movement inside of 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): https...

The Convergence of Destiny | UAM Snapshot 4 19.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 4: A Life Reborn Returning to the same maternal ward where my own displacement began, I felt the peculiar convergence of destiny as a tiny miracle latched onto my breast to claim a lineage I had been afraid to seek. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical...

Performance of the Real | UAM Snapshot 3 19.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 3: My Unseen Self A suitcase retrieved from a cupboard and placed on a childhood bed became the silent anchor for a lifelong vow: it is safer to perform than to be real. 🎧 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-adoptical...

Borrowed Joy | UAM Snapshot 2 19.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 2: Little Lamb I was taught to radiate a borrowed joy, mirroring a family narrative that told me I was chosen only because I was the prettiest baby in the room. 🎧 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 🛒...

The Hollow Space | UAM Snapshot 1 19.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 1: Beyond the Umbilical As the golden cord of love finally severed in that hospital room, I found myself standing in a hollow space where the only remaining presence was the unwelcome friend of numbness. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically 🛒 Own the physical book (Amazo...

Welcome To My Story | UAM Intro 19.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me — My story. My truth. My voice. | Introduction Before the first snapshot begins, a word from the Cave Studio — and from the woman who lived every chapter of this story. 🎧 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...

An Odyssey of Magic | UAM Dedication & Foreword 19.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me — My story. My truth. My voice. | Dedication & Foreword Reconnecting after fifty-one years, I realized that our shared silence was merely the rhythmic prelude to an odyssey of magic that neither of us was prepared to name. (Sonnette Lombaard) 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (exclusive ebook): https://foreverfree.co.za/un-adoptically...

Written in My Own Voice | UAM Opening Credits 19.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me — My story. My truth. My voice. | Opening Credits Before the first snapshot begins, a word from the studio: this memoir was written by the woman who lived it, and narrated by the same woman who survived it. Welcome to Cave Studio, Tulbagh. The story starts here. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (Free PDF/EPUB): https://foreverfree.co.za/...

Chosen and Abandoned in the Same Breath | UAM Trailer 19.04.2026

Un-Adoptically Me — My story. My truth. My voice. | Official Trailer For fifty-one years, I lived inside borrowed names and polite silences — chosen and abandoned in the same breath, taught gently not to ask too many questions. 🎧 Stream the full series: https://foreverfree.co.za/listen88 📖 Read along (Free PDF/EPUB): https://foreverfree.co.za/uam 🛒 Amazon (International): https://mybook.to/un-a...

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