Ambrosini - Open wide: a radically real guide to deep love, rocking relationships, and soulful sex

Praise for Open Wide

Full of relevant insights and deeply personal anecdotes, Open Wide offers real tools and accessible advice that we can all put into action and practice. Thank you, MelissaIll be reading this several times and putting your work into practice for many moons to come.

ELENA BROWER, AUTHOR OF PRACTICE YOU AND ART OF ATTENTION

Full of loving guidance, deeply personal stories, and genuine aha moments, Open Wide serves up real tools and relatable advice that you can put into action immediately for lasting results.

CHRISTINE HASSLER, AUTHOR OF EXPECTATION HANGOVER AND HOST OF THE OVER IT AND ON WITH IT PODCAST

Melissa Ambrosini is the down-to-earth best friend youve always longed for. In Open Wide, she shares her hard-won wisdom so you can rocket all your relationships to new levels of intimacy and fulfillment.

ALEXI PANOS, AUTHOR OF 50 WAYS TO YAY! AND NOW OR NEVER

Open Wide is the real deal. This isnt your mothers relationship guide... Well, unless she wants a new one! In fact, every woman in your lifesingle or takenneeds a copy, pronto.

PRESTON SMILES, AUTHOR OF LOVE LOUDER

Want deeper, more soulful connections with the people you care about? Melissa Ambrosinis Open Wide provides powerful tools for enriching all the relationships in your life, including the most important one of all, the one with yourself.

SELINA SOO, CREATOR OF IMPACTING MILLIONS

So many relationship books feel a little stuffy and unrealistic. Open Wide is the antithesis of that! Instead of dishing out the same trite advice found in most self-help books, Melissa offers fresh, useful tools and techniques for upgrading and enriching all the relationships in your lifeincluding the most important one of all, the one with yourself.

EMMA ISAACS, FOUNDER AND GLOBAL CEO, BUSINESS CHICKS

Melissa Ambrosini is someone that will help change your life. Im blessed to call her a close friend and have witnessed her deep and soulful love in person! In Open Wide, she shares her hard-won wisdom and juicy insights so you can rock all your relationships to new levels of intimacy and fulfillment. A must-read.

RACHAEL FINCH, AUTHOR OF HAPPY, HEALTHY, STRONG AND FOUNDER OF B.O.B FITNESS AND APPAREL

Melissa holds up a mirror to our deepest fears and desires, with an invitation to step in fully, so that we may be more love, to have more love. Her bold shares on living Open Wide have moved and inspired me to more explore myself, my marriage and my relationships with ruthless curiosity. With matter-of-fact strength and audacity, she takes on taboo, bringing self-pleasure, sacred sexual union and sex-positive family discussion out of the darkness and into the lightwhere they rightfully belong. Taking self-love to a whole new level, this bible for her tribe will create ripples of change in the world, the results of which will be empowered women, liberated in their bodies and sexuality, tender-hearted to their loved ones, kinder to themselves.

TARA BLISS, WOMENS MENTOR

Open Wide is THE book weve all been waiting for. Weve been fumbling our way through awkward and downright hurtful relationships without a guide for way too long. Its time we had a REAL life soul sister by your side guide thats packed full of useful tips and strategies that really work. This is exactly what Melissa delivers: a life-altering book that shows you how to create long-lasting and soulful relationships that are exploding with love and mind-blowing sex. If your sex life doesnt rock your world or if your relationships dont crack your heart wide open, then this book is for you. Its a truly comprehensive guide for both men and woman alike that will be passed down through generations.

LEISA PORTEOUS-SEMPLE, HEALTH AND WELLNESS COACH

This book is incredibly insightful. Melissa gives the most down-to-earth, fun relationship guide for REAL, modern women.

MADDY SHAW, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND NUTRITIONAL THERAPIST

Copyright 2018 by Melissa Ambrosini

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First E-Book Edition: March 2018

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

ISBN: 9781946885074

e-ISBN: 9781946885166

Originally published by HarperCollinsPublishers, Australia

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This book is dedicated to YOU, my darling reader.

May you Open Wide to your true magnificence and unlock your full potential.

Love, Melissa

xx

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

While this book is intended as a general information resource and all care has been taken in compiling the contents, this book does not take into account individual circumstances and this book is not in any way a substitute for the medical advice of physicians. It is essential that you always seek qualified medical advice if you suspect you have a health problem. The author and publisher cannot be held responsible for any claim or action that may arise from reliance on the information contained in this book.

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I have been working with Melissa for some years, and Im happy and incredibly grateful to say that weve been good friends ever since.

Aside from the fact that she has a contagious and unstoppable enthusiasm for life, the ability to light up a room with her smile, and is driven to create change, I genuinely believe that she is a thought-leader in her field and relentlessly committed to giving others real life tools to live their lives at 100 percent.

Anyone whos spent time with Melissa knows that she is a shining light and the real deal when it comes to enthusiasm for wellness and helping others. In 2016, I was so honored to award her the Active Living Award for all the incredible work she does to inspire and educate women.

Being with Melissa just makes you want to be a better human, and its refreshing to find an openly generous and informative book about relationships, love, sex, and authenticity, written by someone who has the bravery to be so genuinely honest about her life, with the pure intention to help and support others.

I cannot imagine anyone who wouldnt benefit from the wisdom in these pagesand Im excited for you to read it!

Open Wide is a gift to us all.

Lorna Jane x

Lorna Jane Clarkson, founder of Lorna Jane activewear company

Its taken me almost twelve long, grueling months to actually sit my bum down and start writing this book. With a looming deadline from my publishers I know I have to start, but Im almost paralyzed by self-doubt, fear, and insecurity. You see, I have this presence called my inner Mean Girl. Thats the name Ive given to the annoying, fear-based voice we all have inside our minds. There are many different names for itresistance, fear, your ego, your inner critic, your shadow self, your smaller self the list goes on. But I like Mean Girl (or Bad Boy for the dudes). Giving the voice a name really helps you separate yourself from its chatter and see that its not