Reading Nancy Verrier's Primal Wound 6 years ago I learned a lot about adoptees and rejection. It spoke to me in a way with an understanding I'd never heard before.
It was an oddly euphoric experience. It brought back terrible, traumatic memories of feeling unloved and rejected by my birth mother, heart-wrenching break ups with girlfriends and strangely, crying after being dropped from the school rugby team.
The insight changed my world. But a bigger, insight was to change it again. That's what today's video is all about. The second far more uplifting insight
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