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. 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.’

Buswell started dancing at the age of four and became an Australian Open champion, turning professional at 21. Although she was used to travelling around the world for her career, taking the job on Strictly and moving to the UK felt completely different.This was a new beginning in a country where she didn’t know a soul and, although she didn’t realise it at first, a show that was going to give her overnight fame. It was my dream job, but I couldn’t do it anymore. I felt so sad, and that sadness became a big incentive to get my body better and healthier, so that I could keep dancing.’ 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 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 book

Success!

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.’

Anya Hayes, commissioning editor, acquired world all-language rights directly from Buswell’s team. It will publish in the UK on 14th March 2023, with the US release in January 2024. I wanted to show that even though things can get tough, you can always come out of it. And if that can help even one person, then that makes me so happy. A lot of people go through stuff like I have – more people than you realise, because it’s often done in silence.’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?