Summary: No matter who you are, you’ve probably at some point struggled with your own self confidence or unleashing your inner self or forming lasting friendships or maybe even experiencing orgasms. That’s what this episode with Melissa Ambrosini, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Open-Wide-Radically-Rocking-Relationships-ebook/dp/B074P4QW5Q/&tag=authorhour-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open Wide</a>, is all about.<br> Melissa is here to teach us how to have deeper love, rocking relationships and soulful sex. ELLE magazine called Melissa a self-love guru. She’s really trying to be the voice for the modern woman. Rather than trying to preach like a lot of other relationship guides, she tries to be like the voice of your supportive best friend who is sharing her wisdom in a way that makes your journey a lot more fun and simple and easier to follow.<br> Melissa is going to give you tools that you can start using immediately to rewrite your future. So that you can have more authentic connections and to experience heart bursting love with a soul mate who gets you on the deepest level and of course, the best soulful sex of your life.<br> <br> <br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Open-Wide-Radically-Rocking-Relationships-ebook/dp/B074P4QW5Q/&tag=authorhour-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>Get Melissa’s new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Open-Wide-Radically-Rocking-Relationships-ebook/dp/B074P4QW5Q/&tag=authorhour-20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open Wide</a> on Amazon.<br> Find out more at <a href="http://melissaambrosini.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MelissaAmbrosini.com</a>.<br> <br> <br> Melissa Ambrosini: Most of my life, I was living a life that was deeply that was unfulfilling to myself. I grew up in a house where it was all filled with people pleasersm and there was a lot of shame around our bodies. There was a lot of slamming of the doors when you walk past someone in the shower.<br> It was taboo and rude and naughty and dirty.<br> This kind of planted a seed in my mind that my body was not something to be proud of. It planted another seed that sex and sexuality and my femininity was something that needed to be suppressed.<br> For most of my life, I carried that with me, and when I started dating, I had very little confidence. I dated men just because they liked me and not because my heart really wanted to be in those relationships. I lived a life that was very outwardly focused ,so my measure of happiness was on the boyfriend or the jobs or what I looked like or how much money I was earning.<br> I didn’t know that there was another way to live. I didn’t know that you could actually feel grateful for your body. I didn’t know that your sexuality and your femininity was something to be celebrated.<br> <br> To Rock Bottom and Back<br> Melissa Ambrosini: I went through most of my teens and 20s dating men that treated me like absolute crap and were verbally abusive and really suppressed and in that time, I really suppressed my truth, and I had what I call junk-food sex.<br> Which was just quick, easy, no connection, just about two people getting off as quickly as possible. Until I hit rock bottom in 2010.<br> I ended up in a hospital with a whole host of health issues. I had chronic fatigue, thyroid problems, I was dealing with anxiety, panic attacks, depression, an eating disorder.<br> Not only a whole host of physical manifestations but also mental as well. I was in the darkest and hardest place of my life. I had just had another guy dump me, he had just cheated on me. I had just moved back from living overseas, so I didn’t have a job. I was sleeping on my friend’s fold-out, single little bed—rent free, thank goodness.<br> I had no job, my friends dumped me because I was “too emotional” for them and going through too much at that time. I remember just thinking, what the F?<br> <br> God,
