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Photos from GROOVE Canberra's post 20/11/2025

💛 THURSDAY TRUTH: Get Off That Thing & Dance Until You Feel Better 💃🔥

Sometimes the fastest way to change your mood…
is to change your MOVE.

Stuck in your head?
Get off that thing and dance.

Feeling flat?
Get off that thing and dance.

Overthinking, overwhelmed, over everything?
You already know —
get off that thing and DANCE until you feel better.

You don’t need choreography.
You don’t need a perfect playlist.
You don’t need to “look good.”
You just need YOU.

Your body.
Your beat.
Your release.
Your energy shifting with every shake, wiggle, stomp, sway, drop, and bounce.

✨ Move your frustration out.
✨ Move your stress through.
✨ Move your joy back in.

Dance is medicine, beautiful.
Movement is therapy.
Groove is the reminder that your body still knows the way back to YOU.

So today…
put the music on, turn it up, and let your body do what it’s been begging for.

Dance your way out of the funk.
Dance your way back to your light.
Dance until you feel better. 💛🔥

Photos from GROOVE Canberra's post 19/11/2025

🌞 ✨ THEME: Groove Truths in Real Life

Everything we do on the day will weave into the 5 Groove Truths:

1️⃣ No One Can Do It For You

You showing up is your declaration:
“I choose myself today.”
Your movement. Your breath. Your healing.
Only you can take that step — and we’ll celebrate you for it.

2️⃣ You Can’t Get It Wrong

There is no right or wrong way to dance, heal, reset, or start over.
Come as you are.
Move how you move.
Rest when you need.
Everything is perfect because it’s authentically YOU.

3️⃣ You Don’t Know How It Will Look

Let this day be a reminder that you don’t need the perfect plan.
You just need a beginning.
Groove in the Park is an invitation to trust the unknown
and let your body lead the way.

4️⃣ You Don’t Know What You Can Do

You’ll surprise yourself.
With how good it feels to move.
With how much you release.
With how safe your body can feel again.
With how powerful your presence truly is.

5️⃣ It’s All About Your Dance

This workshop isn’t about choreography — it’s about FREEDOM.
It’s about feeling good in your skin.
It’s about reconnecting to joy, play, and self-expression…

Your life is your dance.
And this is your moment to step back into it.

18/11/2025

The Woman I’m Becoming (Through the Groove Truths)

The woman I’m becoming…
is shaped not just by the storms I’ve survived,
but by the Groove Truths that carried me through them.

1️⃣ No One Can Do It For You

The woman I’m becoming knows she had to walk her own fires.
No one could fight cancer for me.
No one could sit through the brain aneurysm scans for me.
No one could grieve my mum the way I had to.
No one can raise my son the way I do.
And no one can rebuild my life for me.

I had to show up for myself — even when it hurt.
Even when I didn’t want to.
Even when it felt impossible.

2️⃣ You Can’t Get It Wrong

The woman I’m becoming has stopped beating herself up for not healing “fast enough.”
For taking breaks.
For being tired.
For falling apart.

Because truthfully?
There was never a wrong way to survive.
There was never a wrong way to come back.
There was never a wrong version of me.

Every step… even the messy ones… were still steps forward.

3️⃣ You Don’t Know How It Will Look

The woman I’m becoming is learning to trust what she can’t see yet.
I never expected my life to unfold like this —
the diagnoses, the loss, the strength I never asked for…

And now?
I don’t know exactly what this next chapter will look like either —
but I know it will be mine.
I know it will be real.
And I know I’m moving toward something bigger.

4️⃣ You Don’t Know What You Can Do

The woman I’m becoming has surprised herself.
In her strength.
In her courage.
In how many times she got back up.
In how deeply she loves and how fiercely she protects.

And now?
I’m surprising myself again — by stepping back into movement,
into joy,
into teaching,
into the dream of becoming a Groove facilitator one day.

I’m doing things the old me never believed she could.

5️⃣ It’s All About Your Dance

The woman I’m becoming knows that life isn’t about perfection —
it’s about how you move through it.

Some days my dance is powerful.
Some days it’s slow.
Some days it’s broken-open and healing.
Some days it’s wild and free.

But every version is valid.
Every version is beautiful.
Every version is mine.

✨ The woman I’m becoming is learning to dance with life again — on her terms.
Softly.
Boldly.
Truthfully.
Uniquely.

And if this is who I’m becoming through the Groove Truths…
I can’t wait to see who I grow into next. 🌞💛✨

17/11/2025

Why I’m Choosing Groove Again

After everything I’ve lived through… my body has changed.
My energy has changed.
I have changed.

The old me pushed through pain.
The old me carried everyone.
The old me didn’t know how to slow down or listen to her body.

But now?

I move differently.
I breathe differently.
I honour myself differently.

And that’s exactly why I’m coming back to Groove.

✨ Groove meets you where you are — broken, rebuilding, exhausted, healing, hopeful, transforming — all of it.
You don’t have to be fit, flexible, coordinated, or full of energy.
You just have to be YOU.

Groove reminded me that movement isn’t about looking good…
It’s about feeling good.

It’s about releasing what your body has held onto.
It’s about shaking off the weight you’ve been carrying for years.
It’s about finding joy in a world that tried to take so much from you.

And after 5 years of pain, grief, medical battles, and survival mode…

✨ I’m ready to feel joy again.
I’m ready to create space again.
I’m ready to reconnect with my body — without fear.

Becoming a Facilitator one day isn’t just a goal — it’s part of my healing.
It’s part of rebuilding my strength, my identity, my confidence, and my spark.

So this is me, letting everyone know:

I’m done hiding.
I’m done shrinking.
I’m done surviving.

It’s time to rise.
It’s time to move.
It’s time to Groove.

Thank you for walking this journey with me — the comeback, the healing, the messy middle, and the magic that’s still unfolding.

The next chapter is only just beginning. 🌞💛✨

16/11/2025

🌿 Real Health Has NOTHING To Do With Dress Size

Let me say it louder for the people in the back:

True health is NOT about your dress size.
Not your weight.
Not your thigh gap.
Not your before-and-after photo.

Real health is about how you FEEL.

It’s about waking up with energy.
It’s about breathing easier.
It’s about moving your body in ways that feel good — not punishing.
It’s about calming your mind.
It’s about lowering the stress your nervous system has been carrying for YEARS.
It’s about finding joy in movement again.
It’s about listening to your body instead of fighting her.

For me?
After lung cancer, a brain aneurysm, grief, and raising my son with cerebral palsy —
my definition of health changed completely.

Now health means:

✨ Can I breathe deeply?
✨ Is my body feeling safe today?
✨ Do I have the energy to show up for myself?
✨ Am I moving because it feels good — not because I “should”?
✨ Am I nourishing my mind, body, and spirit?

And THAT is why we Groove.

Not to get smaller.
Not to impress anyone.
Not to meet society’s expectations.

But to reconnect.
To release.
To revive ourselves from the inside out.
To feel alive in our own skin again.

Because the healthiest version of you
is the one who feels free, strong, grounded, joyful, and at peace.

💛 This Sunday, we’re moving for THAT.
Not for calories.
Not for weight.
But for healing, energy, joy, connection, and freedom.

📅 Groove in the Park
Sunday 23rd November
10AM–2PM — Tuggeranong Lake

Bring your body exactly as she is.
She is already worthy.
She is already enough.
She is already your home.

Let’s move for REAL health.
Let’s move for US. 🌞

16/11/2025

🌞 I’m Back — And Stepping Into My Next Chapter 🌿

The last 5 years have been some of the hardest — and most defining — of my life.

I’ve fought lung cancer.
Survived a brain aneurysm.
Said goodbye to my beautiful mum.
And raised my son with cerebral palsy through every hospital appointment, challenge, and breakthrough — all while trying to remember who I was in the middle of it.

It’s been heavy.
It’s been messy.
It’s been transformative.

But somehow… through all of it…
I kept moving.
I kept breathing.
I kept coming back to myself, little by little.

And now… I’m finally ready to step forward again.

✨ I’m returning to the Groove world — not just as a Promoter, but as a woman preparing to become a Facilitator next year.
This time I’m coming in stronger, wiser, and more aligned with who I truly am.

I’m not “there” yet — but I’m on my way.
I’m learning, growing, healing, and rising.
And I want to bring YOU along for the journey… the messy middle, the rebuilding, the glow-up, the whole damn story.

To anyone who has felt lost, exhausted, or buried under life these last few years — this next season is for us.

I’m back.
I’m ready.
And I’m finding my light again — one Groove, one breath, one step at a time. 🌞💛✨

13/11/2025

Movement isn’t just physical, it’s neurological.
Every time you choose to move with awareness,
to feel instead of freeze,
to groove instead of numb out,
you’re creating new pathways in your brain.

You’re not just dancing.
You’re rewiring. Reclaiming. Returning to yourself.

We heal not by fixing what’s “broken,”
but by remembering what’s always been whole.

Here’s why Body Groove works:
It’s not about steps.
It’s not about looking good.
It’s about feeling good on a cellular, emotional, soul-deep level.

Body Groove invites your whole self to the dance floor...
your story, your scars, your joy, your truth.

You move your way. You connect to your body.
And every time you do, your brain starts to rewire for safety, joy, and presence.

It is neuroplasticity in motion.

That’s the power of this method.
It’s simple. And it works.

01/09/2025



“No one cares how you look when you dance”

A reminder that freedom comes when you release self-consciousness and lean into authenticity.

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