Move Yourself Happy: 21 Days to Make Joyful Movement a Habit

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I love Strictly Come Dancing and so don’t see myself going anywhere – but I don’t have a five-year plan either.’ Dianne Buswell Buswell has just finished the Strictly Come Dancing Live tour and is also working with the Gymondo fitness platform, where she’s created a programme, Danceworks. She runs her own wellness platform, Buswellness, there’s work planned around the launch of Move Yourself Happy and, before long, it’ll be time for Strictly again, where she hopes to stay for the foreseeable. So we have different ways of doing things, but we’re also similar in that we love to create stuff, and we love the outdoors and the countryside. We have an old camper van and love nothing more than just getting in that and going for a drive to the beach. I love Strictly Come Dancing and so don’t see myself going anywhere – but I don’t have a five-year plan either. The diary is looking very full, but I try to take things month by month and job by job, so that I don’t feel too overwhelmed. I genuinely love being busy, but I also want to try and get some proper downtime in there and do a bit of travelling with Joe this year.’

A fun and highly accessible guide to transforming your mental and physical wellbeing through joyful movement from TV personality and celebrity dancer Dianne Buswell.

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Buswell bravely details some of her own journey in the book, writing about how she turned things around, and hopes her honesty will help others suffering similar troubles. I got well and rediscovered my drive,’ reflects Buswell, ‘and that was the nicest feeling, being able to say: “I’m so much better now”, because when things were the other way, it was so tough.’ She describes the relationship as ‘super easy going’, although says they are quite different characters: ‘I’m very carefree, whereas he’s a bit more of a worrier. He takes a lot of time to get things absolutely perfect, while I’m a bit more “rush and get it done and, oh yeah, that’s fine”.

I use my body so much that I’m very aware when something doesn’t feel right. For me, living a healthy lifestyle is what makes me feel great.’ Dianne Buswell In this enriching 21-day programme, Dianne Buswell shows you how to make joyful movement a habit. Forget gruelling exercise regimes or punishing diets – Dianne’s unique approach nourishes your body and mind using her four pillars of health: rest, movement, nutrition and positivity. By July 2015, Buswell had landed a job on Australia’s Dancing with the Stars, which was followed in early 2017 by a successful audition for Strictly, which ‘changed everything’ in so many ways (we’ll come to that shortly). Dianne Buswell on her new bookMove Yourself Happy, from Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer Diane Buswell, is a transformative body-positive guide celebrating the joy of movement and offering guidance on how to nurture and nourish our mental and physical health, and well being. My mum is quite a harsh critic,’ she says, ‘but she absolutely loved it, which made me very happy. I’m so excited to get the book out there now, because it’s something I’ve wanted to do for such a long time. I would finish the act so exhausted that I would pass out on the side of the stage. ‘It was destroying my body and destroying my mind. I never in my life thought there would be a time that I didn’t want to dance. But now I was actually saying that I didn’t want to do a show, that it was all too hard.’ This book is a guide, not gospel. You are you, and life is about finding out more about what you enjoy, and what makes you feel good in your own way. The real secret to health is finding the joy in movement, and then enjoying and appreciating what your body and mind get in return. Who wouldn’t want more flexibility, co-ordination, balance, sleep and happiness? I wanted to look a certain way, so I told myself I was only going to have so many calories, and my brain was so focused on that, that it became really dangerous.’ Dianne Buswell