Welcome to the Melissa Ambrisini Show. I'm your host, Melissa, best-selling author of Mastering Your Mean Girl, Open Wide, Comparisonitis and Time Magic.

And I'm here to remind you that love is sexy. Healthy is liberating and wealthy isn't a dirty word.

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Are you ready, beautiful? Hey, beautiful. Welcome back to the show. Today I want to talk to you about the power of doing

the inner work. Now, I have been on this journey, my inward spiritual journey, since October 2010 is when I ended up in hospital

at rock bottom and everything shifted for me from there. And that is when I began the inner

healing work. And what I know for sure is that the inner work never ends. And the more we do, the better every area of

our life becomes. Our business flows better. Our relationships flow better. We become a better

parent and we love ourselves so much more deeply. So it is so important that we do this inner work. And it's not just

for healing, but it's for creating an aligned, abundant and joy-filled life. Okay. So today I want to

pull back the curtains on what the inner work really means,

why most people avoid it, and how it can radically transform your life. Like I said, from your

relationships, to your health, to your business, to your success, everything. So, firstly,

let's just talk about what is the inner work. You might

have heard people talk about shadow work or limiting beliefs or inner child healing or childhood

patterns or subconscious programming or emotional healing. It's basically dealing with what is going

on within you. The stories that you tell yourself,

the reactions, the feelings of control, anger, whatever it is. That is the inner work. And I want

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