The Story Behind the Vive's.
rhiVIVE was born from a wild ride with breast cancer and a simple truth: No one hands you back your sense of self.
You have to find your way back to it — often in the smallest of moments.
My name is Rhianne, founder of rhiVIVE, and everything here has been shaped by my own search for that feeling.
There was a point where everything in my life had changed — my body, my reflection, the way I moved through the world.
And I didn’t really have language for it at the time; I just knew I didn’t feel like myself anymore.
Somewhere between treatments, surgeries, medications, and learning to meet myself all over again, I started to notice how disconnected I felt from my own body… and from me. Not in a dramatic way. In a quiet, everyday way.
Getting dressed. Looking in the mirror. Moving through normal life things that suddenly didn’t feel normal anymore.
And what I started reaching for wasn’t answers. It was moments where I felt even slightly like myself again. Small things. Simple things. Things I used to overlook.
Because your Vive doesn’t disappear. It gets buried under life — expectations, responsibilities, grief, change, noise. And slowly, without realising it, I started rebuilding myself through those tiny moments again. This is what rhiVIVE comes from.
Not a theory. Not a philosophy. But a lived experience of trying to find your way back to yourself — gently, in your own time. And I’d love for you to come back to yours.