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Another friend told Fred about a Christian primal therapy
clinic in Salisbury Maryland that had been helpful for him. On that
friend’s recommendation, Fred signed up to travel to Salisbury for a
three week intensive counseling session. They specialized in
regressing people down to memories of their early childhood years,
usually their first three or “primal” years, in hopes that by uncovering
and re-experiencing early traumatic incidences, that they could then
make different decisions from an adult’s perspective on how to
operate in life more effectively.

Again, nothing changed with Fred. In the process of learning
about primal therapy, I became quite interested in it. When I heard
about a course they were offering to train people to become lay primal
therapists, I signed on. Over the course of a year I would go down to
Salisbury for eight different weekends of training with seven other
trainees which would include practicing primal therapy on each other.
I felt it could help to uncover some of my own early childhood issues
and be helpful in my continuing search towards emotional healing.

Fred and I also took part in Marriage Enrichment weekends
that they had. During one such weekend, they talked to us about
personality types and how it could affect how couples related to each
other. We were given the Myer-Briggs test to determine what our
personality types were. I was an INFP and Fred was an ESFJ.
Basically, that meant that we were opposites in our personality types
except for the “F” being the same.

This is how it broke down in our personalities:
Jan INFP I - Introverted N - Intuitive F - Feeling P –Perceiving
Fred ESFJ E - Extroverted S - Sensate F - Feeling J - Judging

Being an introvert, I preferred being with small numbers of
people, preferably one on one, whereas Fred, being an extrovert liked
being with lots of people, especially in large groups. Being an
intuitive I loved thinking about possibilities and going by my hunches
while Fred, being a sensate preferred thinking about what was actual
and based on past experiences. We were both feelers which meant