Moving to another country is difficult. Doing it while pregnant, learning a new language, rebuilding your life, and becoming a parent at the same time changes everything.

In this episode of Home, Again!, Shelby Norment shares her journey from the United States to Chile after falling in love, starting a family, and choosing a very different future for her son.

Shelby reflects on identity, isolation, motherhood, language barriers, culture shock, dependence, guilt, resilience, and the quiet emotional realities of starting over abroad. She speaks openly about leaving family behind, navigating pregnancy in a foreign healthcare system, losing independence, and slowly rebuilding belonging one conversation at a time.

This conversation explores what happens when relocation strips life back to the basics and forces you to grow in ways you never expected.

Topics include motherhood abroad, immigration, language learning, identity shifts, cultural adaptation, loneliness, resilience, family, and rebuilding life in Chile.

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What happens when relocation changes more than your address?

In this episode of Home, Again!, illustrator and storyboard artist Pete Woo reflects on leaving South Africa for the United Kingdom and the unexpected personal shifts that followed.

Pete shares the reality behind rebuilding life abroad after leaving behind a settled home, creative identity, family, and familiarity in Cape Town. He speaks openly about grief, hearing loss, confidence, care work, creativity, bisexuality, and the freedom that can come when relocation removes old expectations and allows you to see yourself differently.

This conversation explores belonging, identity, adaptation, and the quiet internal changes that happen when you begin again in another country.

You can find Pete’s work at:

• petewoo.com

• Instagram: @pete_woo

Home, Again is part of Bravely Me, supporting people through life transitions, identity shifts, relocation, grief, and relationship change.

After personal loss, unexpected change, and a journey through Peru, Miranda arrives in Chile with little more than her dog, a suitcase, and the feeling that she no longer fits the life she left behind in the United States.

In this episode, she reflects on culture shock, rebuilding identity, learning to depend on herself, and the slow process of becoming part of a community. She shares how travel exposed her to both deep poverty and deep generosity, how Chilean culture reshaped her understanding of life, and why some relationships faded while others became stronger.

This conversation explores what happens when relocation stops being an escape and becomes the place where you finally begin building a life that feels like your own.

What changes when you stop trying to return to who you were before?