Ep 28 | being a stay at home mum in rural australia is making me question everything

🎬 NEW VLOG: Ep 28 is live

Hi team,

If you’re a millennial parent who always thought they’d raise their kids in a buzzing city, surrounded by brunch options, Uber Eats and a variety of indoor soft plays...

And instead, you somehow ended up in a tiny rural town with one playground, no social life (really, to mention, as of yet), and a slow-burning identity crisis brewing under the surface...

This vlog is for you.

Rural motherhood isn't the peaceful escape everyone thinks it is. The silence is confronting, and I'm struggling to find myself in it...

📍 I live in Moora, WA (pop. 1,900).

I moved here with my family for a fresh start and a visa that we've tried to get for the past 10 years — and I’ve been trying to hold onto me ever since.

This episode includes:

Bakery-fuelled breakthroughs 🍩

A type C parenting hack involving strawberries

Small town silence that makes you question your existence

And the moment I realised I hadn’t lost myself — I’d just stopped having fun

If you're navigating change, chasing something bigger, or just trying not to lose yourself while raising a family somewhere that doesn’t immediately feel like you — this one's for you.

🎙️ Featuring dry humour, honest reflection, and a side of toasted cheese croissants.

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As Natasha Bedingfield once said… the rest is still unwritten.
If you get the reference, you’re safe here x

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TIMESTAMPS:

[00:00] if Carrie Bradshaw moved to Moora
[00:35] trip to the bakery
[01:00] who am I?
[01:46] existential breakdown
[01:59] raving to Blippi
[02:11] our chaotic morning story
[02:44] mum hack for lunches
[03:24] Ella running cross country
[03:57] evening montage
[04:27] the sunset!!
[04:48] evening journaling breakthrough

Maria xx

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If you'd like to watch our journey from the very beginning (literally day one all the way through to boarding the flight to Perth), you can watch it all below:
   • Moving Diary Ep. 1 | First 48 hours in Per...  

Then once you're finished there, feel free to catch up with how we're settling in regional WA with my Moving Diaries series:
   • Moving Diary Ep. 7 | My mental health in t...  

Maria x