Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge. Today we're talking about finding your purpose in life.

We've got a friend of ours, Craig Fylic with us today.

He has developed an entire methodology, an entire practice around discovering your true purpose in life.

He's created an entire organization called Purpose Mapping around this,

and we've invited him to come on and talk about some of the things that he does best, which is finding you your purpose.

So Craig, welcome to the Personality Hacker Podcast.

Thank you.

So let's just start right out and I guess get your personal story. I love starting with the people part of what we do here at Personality Hacker and who we connect with.

You have a personal story obviously that led you to this, what you're doing now. What is that? What has

come up for you in your life and why are you doing this right now? Cool. So my

story really begins. I was a love child of the 70s. I was adopted at birth and there's

a really powerful book that I didn't discover until, oh gosh, I was in my early 20s, called

The Primal Wound.

And what it talks about is how Adopt-E's experience experience what they call a premature ego death. And what

that's around is you know the the child in utero develops the rhythm and the

just sort of a homeostasis around relationship with the birth mother,

and then there's a break in that rhythm and that pattern and the child is adopted and goes to an intense period

of grief.

And because the baby is crying, it's a pre-verbal experience the adoptive parents really have no way

of interpreting this other than child's hungry child's tired needs something and there's often this there's this sense of okay well you know

I'm not a good mother I'm not a good father so they sort of overplay to settle the child down and the

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