Oct 24, 2026 · 30 min · 13 segments
In her memoir Beyond the Gates of Gloriavale, Rosanna Overcomer details the difficulties of leaving the religious sect and the challenges of adjusting to the freedoms that came with starting over.
Jim MoraHost
What did a typical day look like for you, Rosie, growing up inside Gloria Vale? Maybe when you were assigned duties, you know, your kind of role in life as a young woman.
And those teams, yeah, there's four ladies teams who do all the work in a cycle.
It could range from morning starts from maybe 3.30 a.m. to kind of 5.30 a.m. or six at the latest being the start time.
Some of the girls would start at 3 or 3.30 and get all the big machines running.
Everyone in the community has a day that they put their washing out on or two days a week.
And so the night before that your washing is getting washed, you take your family's laundry up to the laundry and sort it into all the bins, you know, dresses, trousers, underwear, socks, etc.
Everything's named and then the girls come in the morning early and start putting that through the machines and especially if it was a day that was raining and we couldn't hang the washing outside on the line then the dryers would need to be running all day as well.
So a couple of the girls would normally start at 3.30 and then another lot would come around 5 or 5.30 and they would come to scrub all the collars on the shirts and the dresses.
So because they make all their own clothes too, before the clothes are even given to people, they're named.
They were kind of like a paint pen that were used to write names on all the clothing.
And that was a job that I had for quite a while, was writing all the names on.
And not just clothing, toothbrushes as well and hairbrushes and all that sort of thing.
Yeah, because you can imagine, yeah, it would get mixed up if we didn't have any system there.
What did a typical day look like for you, Rosie, growing up inside Gloria Vale? Maybe when you were assigned duties, you know, your kind of role in life as a young woman.
And those teams, yeah, there's four ladies teams who do all the work in a cycle.
It could range from morning starts from maybe 3.30 a.m. to kind of 5.30 a.m. or six at the latest being the start time.
Some of the girls would start at 3 or 3.30 and get all the big machines running.
Everyone in the community has a day that they put their washing out on or two days a week.
And so the night before that your washing is getting washed, you take your family's laundry up to the laundry and sort it into all the bins, you know, dresses, trousers, underwear, socks, etc.
Everything's named and then the girls come in the morning early and start putting that through the machines and especially if it was a day that was raining and we couldn't hang the washing outside on the line then the dryers would need to be running all day as well.
So a couple of the girls would normally start at 3.30 and then another lot would come around 5 or 5.30 and they would come to scrub all the collars on the shirts and the dresses.
So because they make all their own clothes too, before the clothes are even given to people, they're named.
They were kind of like a paint pen that were used to write names on all the clothing.
And that was a job that I had for quite a while, was writing all the names on.
And not just clothing, toothbrushes as well and hairbrushes and all that sort of thing.
Yeah, because you can imagine, yeah, it would get mixed up if we didn't have any system there.
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