Have you ever found yourself totally overwhelmed by all the mixed messages about who you're supposed to be? Maybe you catch yourself scrolling Instagram, quietly comparing your energy to yet another "perfect" influencer mom, and suddenly you're wondering if you're falling short in your calling?
You're not alone. Seriously — all that noise out there can make it almost impossible to understand who you truly are and what God's asking of you.
But what if you actually had a built-in guide to cut through the chaos and see yourself as God does — enough, loved, and deeply designed on purpose?
This week on Nourished to Bloom, we're doing exactly that with the Gift of Understanding.
We're in week two of our "Summer with the Holy Spirit" series, and let me tell you, this episode is the soul-clarity refresher you've been craving.
Here's a taste:
✨ Why the gift of Understanding is KEY to untangling confusion in our noisy world (and why wisdom alone just isn't enough)
🌱 A beautiful, story-centered way to see your place in God's history (seriously, the "blank page" analogy will 🤯)
🪞 Practical ways to get to know who you are — including an intro to the FOUR classic temperaments (choleric, sanguine, melancholic, phlegmatic) and how these unique "wiring" patterns impact your motherhood, body image, and wellness
🙏 Real-life encouragement to STOP the comparison trap and celebrate your authentic, God-given beauty (because you were never meant to be a carbon copy!)
🔍 Plus: Action steps and resources — like a free temperament quiz & workshop — so you can get curious about your unique personality and start living your purpose with confidence
The Holy Spirit's gift of understanding isn't just some lofty concept but a practical tool to help you know yourself, embrace your body and soul, and say "yes" to the mission God has uniquely equipped you for.
NEXT STEPS:
Take the FREE Temperament Quiz from Metanoia Catholic—click here!
Check out the FREE Temperament Workshop in the Nourished to Bloom Community. It's designed to help you embrace your strengths, understand areas for growth, and see your temperament as a beautiful tool for living your mission. Join at community.karatrochta.com.
Share this episode with a friend or sister-in-law who's longing for more peace, clarity, or purpose in her journey. And don't forget to join us next week for more on our Summer with the Holy Spirit series! nourishedtobloom.com
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So I think most of you would agree that we live in a rather
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confusing and chaotic world. We
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have conflicting messages thrown in our face day in and
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day out. Every time we pick up our phone and look at social media,
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every time we turn on the news, talking to friends, talking to
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neighbors, it can be overwhelming and it can
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be confusing to really know
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who we are, what we're supposed to be doing, what God is calling
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us to. But as we continue our summer series,
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Summer with the Holy Spirit, we this week are calling upon the
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gift of understanding. And the beauty of the gift of
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understanding is that it helps us to not be
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confused by these conflicting messages in our culture. And it
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really helps us to know that right way to live and how we need
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to live as followers of Christ. And it also gives
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us the opportunity to better know ourselves,
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to grow in that self awareness and grow in that self
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understanding of knowing exactly who we are,
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who God created us to be, our unique gifts and
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talents, and how he's calling us to use them.
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So in this episode we're going to talk about the gift of understanding and some
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practical ways that they can help us live out our daily lives, our
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daily missions, in a unique and
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fun, fully radical way for the Lord.
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So I hope that you'll join me. Welcome
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to the Nourish to Bloom podcast where your faith meets your health.
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I'm your host, Kara Trochta, a registered dietitian and certified
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Catholic coach, and I'm here to help you cultivate a deeper connection with your
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body, your spirit, and the nourishment that sustains them both
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in a world filled with noise and confusion about food,
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food, health and body image, this podcast offers truth and healing
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from a Christ centered perspective. Together we'll untangle the
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deep roots of diet culture and discover what it means to truly
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care for ourselves through joyful nourishment of mind,
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body and soul. We're here to dive into the transformative power of
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intuitive eating coupled with the rich teachings of our Christian faith.
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With every episode, I'll be cheering you on, offering insights,
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inspiration and practical tools to help you heal your
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relationship with food and embrace the beauty of your body as
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a temple of the Holy Spirit with confidence and courage
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that can only be found in Christ. Join me as we journey
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together towards a more holistic approach to wellness, one that honors the
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wisdom of your body as God's creation, the teachings of our
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faith, and the unique purpose you're called to fulfill.
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You were made to bloom, to come into
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full beauty and health in order to bear good fruit for the Lord with
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your life. So if you're ready to nourish your body, feed your soul,
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and bloom into the best version of yourself, then you're. In the right place.
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And I'm so happy you're here. Welcome to Nourish to
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Bloom, where every day is a sacred invitation to thrive.
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Hey there. Welcome back to the Nourish to Bloom podcast as
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we are continuing our summer series, Summer with the
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Holy Spirit. So happy to have you join me here
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today and spending some time with me this week as we
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continue to dive into the gifts of the Holy Spirit and how
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we can really call upon them, how we are meant
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to call upon, and how God gave them as these gifts for us to call
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upon, to help shape us and guide us and help us
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live with a greater sense of our
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purpose and more peace and more presence
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to the things that are really important and really matter in our life.
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And so this week we're going to talk about the gift of understanding
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and how this gift can really help us grasp who we are,
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how God is at work in our lives, and how he's calling us to
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live out our purpose with clarity, especially in
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this really messy yet beautiful everyday
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moments of navigating motherhood, careers, our health
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and wellness, all the things.
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So a person who has who really calls upon this
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gift of understanding is someone who is not confused by
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all of those conflicting messages in our culture about the right way to live.
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When we are infused with this gift of understanding,
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we are able to comprehend how we need to live as a follower
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of Christ. Now, this week I was listening to
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a previous homily from Father Mike
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Schmitz, and he said in his homily that ever since the fall
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in the Garden of Eden, that there's this lie that comes against every
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woman. And this lie says that you are not worth
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loving as you are right now. And then he
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shares what God does in response to that lie. And what
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he does is that he claims you. He claims you, and he
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claims me as beloved daughters of God.
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And to be claimed for him to claim us. We don't have to earn it,
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we don't have to work for it. We don't have to produce a
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certain outcome. We don't have to be a certain person.
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It's just the truth that we are a beloved daughter of
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God. And I think that having that gift of
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understanding helps us to truly believe
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that truth that we are beloved daughters of God. Because,
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I mean, let's be honest, as women and especially mothers
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in today's society, it's so Easy to lose sight of, of
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who we are because we spend so much time
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comparing, trying to be, quote, unquote, better
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or to fit someone else's mold, that we
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forget that we were never meant to be someone else.
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Some of the things that I say a lot are like, God doesn't want carbon
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copies of every person of that Instagram influencer,
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of that celebrity, right? If that's what he
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wanted, that's who he would have created. But you were
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created with a specific beauty and a
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specific design and a unique
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mission. And when you call upon
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that gift of understanding, it helps you to see that,
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to really know who God created you to be and how he
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wants you to live that out. I've shared that I've been
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kind of going through this meditation series from Father David Pavanka,
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and in his meditation on the gift of understanding, he. He
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can. He shares some insights in that the gift of
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understanding, it's not just insights into what we believe, but why
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it matters and why the gift of understanding is so important.
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And some of the things that he shares is that it helps us to grasp
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the measure of our goodness and beauty,
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and it helps us to comprehend how to live as followers of
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Jesus in the midst of this noisy world. And
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then it helps us to understand God's movement, how God is moving
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and working in our lives, his grace, and then
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our place in his story. And I love to
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think about that. I'm going to go off on a side tangent here. I shared
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that I was a catechist for the Catechesis of Good shepherd. And one of the
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works that we do in level two at the beginning of the year is. It's
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called the Blue Unity strip, but it's looking at the history of the kingdom of
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God and how the history of the kingdom of God
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starts with Genesis, right? It starts with that creation
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and how, you know, God
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created the heavens and the earth. He. He created the waters. He
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created the plants
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and the animals, the birds, the fish of the sea, like, all of these things,
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right? And there was an order to God's creation. And when you look at this
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on this Blue Unity strip, there's like, gaps in time between each of these things
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of creation, you know, millions upon millions of.
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And then it's. You can see this. And then it comes to the creation
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of human beings and how God created
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human beings. And it was like we
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were the people who arrived at a banquet feast that everything we could
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possibly need was prepared for us, but that he created us
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in a. In a unique way to all other
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Creation because He gave us minds and he gave us hands
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to do his work. And when we're doing this, this work with the children
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and we're giving this presentation, you, you have this whole,
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you know, timeline of all these things that happen. And it has,
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you know, it has the creation of mankind, and then it has when Christ was
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born and his salvation. And that marks the time of redemption,
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of when redemption is coming. And that's currently the time that we're still living in
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on this timeline. But you have where Jesus came,
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and right after that on our timeline, there's this like,
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blank page, this blank piece of paper that's on the timeline. And when we
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talk to the kids about this, we always ask them, well, what do you think
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that blank page is for? What's supposed to go on that blank
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page? And the whole idea is for them to comprehend and understand
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that that blank page is their story, that it
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is their time in the history of the kingdom of God.
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And that together with God, they are writing that story,
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that they are putting themselves in
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God's history, in God's timeline. And I just had to
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take a moment to really reflect on that because it's so profound to understand
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God's movement, to understand his grace, and then to know our place
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in his story, that we have a place in his story.
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And then finally, the gift of understanding helps us to accept
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the mysteries of our faith and to see how our
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everyday lives are woven into something much greater.
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Right? That every person has that blank
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page that belongs, that's being written in God's history,
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and that all of these pages of history come together to create
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God's overall history of the kingdom of God
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until we get to Parousia, when God will be all in all. And it's
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just, it's so beautiful to look at that. But then it can also be
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so overwhelming and mind boggling that
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thank goodness we were given the gift of understanding to help us
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kind of peel back these layers of the mysteries of our faith and
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begin to understand who God is,
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His character, and how he
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created us to be, how he created us in his same
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image and how we have this calling upon our lives, this
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unique mission, and each of our unique characteristics, our
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unique beauty, our unique design, all helps to write that
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page in the history of the kingdom of God. And so
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whereas wisdom helps us to kind of judge rightly,
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understanding helps us to see clearly. And so it helps to bring
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clarity into the confusion. It offers peace
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in chaos and really shines that
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purpose in our ordinary everyday lives. Right?
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So I Think understanding really
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is kind of helps us better
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grasp wisdom, right? Because wisdom is that capacity
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to love spiritual things more than material ones. And
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understanding kind of helps us to know, like, why
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we should do that, right? It kind of gives us a little, maybe more concrete
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evidence for that, that wisdom.
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And so how can we practically tap into this gift
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of understanding? And when I was reflecting on this and really
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wanting to bring that practicality element
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into the podcast, I really came,
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like, around three things that I think are some really
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impactful tools that are available to each of us to help
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us embrace this gift of understanding. And.
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And the three ways that we can grow in understanding is
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knowing our purpose, knowing who you are,
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and knowing what God is calling you to do. Because as
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women, I think we can often struggle with really knowing who we are.
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And I think it's because, again, we spend a lot of this time comparing
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ourselves to others or trying to be more like others because
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we think it's the key to happiness or acceptance.
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But instead, today, I really want to focus on
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growing in understanding to help you know who God
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created you to be, knowing who you are,
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what your unique gifts are, and how God wants you to use those
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gifts in service of his kingdom. And so that's
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what we're going to focus on today, is to help us get a better understanding
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of these things, and we're going to explore each one of them, but we're going
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to start with getting a better understanding of our
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purpose, because I think that that's something that we struggle a
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lot with, right? We maybe spend a lot of time,
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you know, a lot of years, kind of asking, you
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know, what's my purpose? Why am I here? Why was I
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created? Well, Jesus makes
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it simple for us to know our purpose. If we go to Matthew,
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chapter 22, verse 37 through 39,
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it tells us right there, love the Lord, your God,
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with all your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself.
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It's so simple, right? That that is
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what we are called to do, that that is our purpose. That is
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what we were created for. And that's that beautiful truth
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that you were created in love to be a gift of love to
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others. Your purpose is simply to love.
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And the gift of understanding starts to help you see how
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you are to do that, right? Where you are
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in your specific vocation, in your motherhood, your
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job, your body, your unique gifts,
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that all of these are part of how God created you to live out
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this purpose of love. But when we
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don't have a real strong sense of self of who
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God created us to be of what our unique talents and
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gifts are. It can really make it difficult for us to feel as if
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we are living out that purpose of love, that we are sharing
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that love. If we don't really know who we are because
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we spend so much time in comparison or trying to be like others,
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we really don't know who we are. And we're unable to fully
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embrace these gifts, which are really the tools that
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we need, the tools that God gave us and equipped us with to live
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out that purpose and our unique mission
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so we can, you know, also call upon the Holy Spirit to help us
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grow in an understanding of ourselves,
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in being able to grow in that self awareness. And one of the
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ways that I love to grow in this gift, and I think it's especially
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practical in everyday life, and I think it's something that's really
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underrated, is by understanding the
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temperaments. And so your unique temperament is part
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of God's given design. Now, there's a whole history of the
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temperaments, and I'm not going to get into that, into this in, in this episode.
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But the temperaments, they're not labels or they're
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not boxes. They're just insights to help
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you understand how you naturally think,
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feel and act. They're some of kind of your just default mode
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of things. And they're a tool that can help you grow in self
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awareness so you can better love God,
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love others, and even love ourselves more.
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So for the sake of the podcast, I just want
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to walk through these four classic temperaments
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together, kind of give you an oversight of what each one of them
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is to help you get a better understanding of who you are. And then
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I'll also share how each one might show up in motherhood and wellness.
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So if you don't know what your temperament is, I'll put a link at the
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bottom of the episode notes. So you can go
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and you can take a temperament quiz from
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Metanoia Catholic and that'll give you what your primary and your secondary
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temperament is. But as I'm going through these, you may pick up on
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some of these, these characteristics and be like, oh yeah,
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I do do that, or I do act that way, or I do think that
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way. And it just starts to help you reveal what a little bit more
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about yourself and maybe help you to
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have a little bit of a shift of some of the things that maybe you
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have thought are weaknesses or struggles or
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characteristics you wish you didn't have. It may help you start
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to shift to see them as, wait a minute, these are Part of the
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way that God designed me, designed me. They're part of my specific
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design. And maybe I can start seeing them as gifts
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and tools and strengths that are going to help you
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to live out that unique purpose and mission.
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Okay, so the first temperament is choleric
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and they're kind of known as like the doers and the drivers.
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So cholerics tend to be strong willed people. They're
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also very goal oriented and they are
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natural leaders. So with this goal
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oriented, they are people who want to reach that goal, they
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achieve that goal, they kind of know the exact steps that they need to take.
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And so in motherhood, the strength of the cleric
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is going to show up as somebody who maybe thrives on
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structure and routines and kind of the mom who can knock out
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that to do list. And in wellness, this is somebody who
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sets goals and can push hard,
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but one of their weaknesses would be struggling with rest or
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flexibility. So recognizing
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that this drive that you have, this goal oriented
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characteristic that you have is a gift, but then also
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recognizing that it's okay to slow down and that God
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is actually inviting you to surrender some of your control. Well,
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surrender all control, right, because he is ultimately in control, but to
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surrender that control and embrace grace,
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especially when things don't go according to plan.
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So then we have the sanguine, who is kind of that fun loving
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connector. So sanguines tend to be people who are outgoing,
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they love to be around people, they're enthusiastic
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and they're relationship driven. So this might be the mom who plans
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the play dates and keep things really light hearted. And in wellness,
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sanguines tend to be the type of people who try to, who
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enjoy trying new things, but can often struggle with
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consistency. And so understanding your
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sanguine temperament helps you bring kind of beauty into your family and
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beauty into the whole world, but it also reminds you to build
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some gentle structure that you need that structure
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so your body and your soul and your life stays nourished
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and consistent. And I laugh at this one, y' all, because I
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am primarily a sanguine. I fit the
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sanguine temperament to a T. And it was just very
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insightful for me to understand why I kind of
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struggled with time management, why I could have these big ideas and
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these big dreams, but not ever really knowing how to take
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them to completion. And that's just part of that
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sanguine temperament is
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they tend to have these big dreams, big visions, but not always a
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finisher. And so that's why it was really important for me to
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try to build some structure and some consistency, but also knowing
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that I couldn't do it in the same way as a
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choleric would with like these lists and these check boxes and things,
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very regimented, because that's not the way that I operated. I
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needed to keep things fun and engaging and really
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tap into my creative side side to help me
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take some of these dreams and visions that I had and
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create a structure or steps to help
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me achieve whatever it was that I was working towards.
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Now, the third temperament is melancholic, and this is my
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secondary temperament. But melancholics
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tend to tend to be deep thinkers. They are more reflective
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and sensitive and they are detail oriented.
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So in motherhood, a melancholic would be someone who is very thoughtful
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and intentional, but can get stuck in
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perfectionist tendencies or worry.
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And in wellness, the melancholic shows up as someone who might be
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researching all the things, trying to figure out what they should
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follow, but they get overwhelmed trying to do it right, that they
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may have everything perfectly planned out, but if they don't execute it perfectly, then
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they start to beat themselves up, up. So
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melancholics just know that your depth is a beautiful gift. But
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God doesn't ask for perfection. He just asks for
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presence. And so that gift of understanding can help you surrender
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those perfectionist tendencies, that pressure that you might be
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feeling, and trust that your quiet care is
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more than enough. And then finally, we have
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our phlegmatics, which are kind of the calm peacemakers. So, so
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phlegmatics tend to be very easygoing and steady and supportive.
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So in motherhood, phlegmatics tend to be the patient
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ones. They're the calm and the storm. And in wellness,
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they value their peace, but that means that they may struggle with
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motivation or prioritizing themselves.
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So as the phlegmatic, you bring peace to your family, but
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you have to remember that you matter too. So
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understanding your needs can help you gently take steps forward in your
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wellness and spiritual life without burnout or guilt.
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So these are just a couple, like overviews of each of the temperaments and how
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they might show up and just hopefully kind of give you
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this peek and this insight into how God created you
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with those unique qualities that you have and that
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you can start to see them as gifts. You can also start to see areas
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that you may need to grow in. And I think the beauty about the
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temperaments is that as I've kind of given you some of these
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characteristics, there might have been this thing that's gone off in your mind where it's
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like, oh, that's that person that I know, or
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she's like that. And then instead of, like,
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passing judgment upon yourself and saying,
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like, I wish I was more like so and so, or I wish I had
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that tendency, it starts to reveal, I think, that
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uniqueness of the body of Christ, and start to
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see, okay, that person is living in their
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contributions. They're living in their strengths when they act this way. And this
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person is living in their strengths when they act this way. And when you
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start to embrace these unique gifts, that allows you to live in your
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strengths, and that this all comes together as the body of
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Christ, and that it allows each of us
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to better live out that purpose of love
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through our own unique missions. So, again, the temperaments
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are not there for you to pass judgment upon yourself, but they're just that
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kind of peek into how God created you to be and those new
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unique qualities that you have been gifted. And so
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let's just take a moment and talk about this idea of your unique mission.
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Because your unique mission is that way in which you're living out
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that purpose. Remember, our purpose, why we were created, is for love.
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And some of the gifts of your temperament are really those tools
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for you to use for living out that unique mission.
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And this mission is really just that unique call to sanctity. This
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is what God is calling you to do. And many of us
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kind of have multiple missions in motherhood, our careers, maybe
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mission work that we're doing. But again, because we've spent
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so much time looking outside of ourselves for what we think we
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should be doing, we may not truly know what our mission
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is. And I just want you to know that
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I have definitely struggled with this in the past. And
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really, there were some clear obstacles when I look back that
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were in the way. One being just my obsession with weight and my
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body, that. That I spent so much time focused on
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that that I couldn't even, like, fathom them. That there would this.
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That there would be this unique mission for me. I was so
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focused on that. And then there was also, you know,
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becoming a mom really had me kind of struggling with,
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okay, where is God calling me? What is he calling me to do? Because
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before becoming a mom, it was. I was very much this high
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achiever. I met all the standards and expectations. I did everything the
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world said was what was going to make me successful and happy.
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And then I became a mom. And that brought on a whole nother
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layer of happiness, but also a realization of how
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many things that I did for the sake of. That's what everybody
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else's expectation was and that I wasn't really living for what God's
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expectations of me were or what he was wanting me to do.
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And so it became just this,
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this sense of like wanting to
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know who I really was, who God had really
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created me to be. What were these things that were
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unique and important to me that I felt like were things
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that God put on my mind and my heart to pursue and what I had
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to offer? Because I really did feel like I was being called
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to more and that motherhood was really that stepping
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stone for it. And so really being able to grow
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in self awareness and getting a better understanding of myself
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and how God uniquely created me really helped me grow in
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confidence and discover that he was calling
00:26:35
me to serve other women and that I can look
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back on all the things that have happened and know without a doubt that
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the way that he has had my life play out
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were all the steps that were necessary for me to live this
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unique mission. And part of the unique mission that I
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am on is to serve other women and help them heal
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their relationship with food and their body. Because that's what he
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helped me do. He led me to healing my relationship with
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food and my body. And that was
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like that clarity moment of oh my gosh,
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other women need to know this. And then he, that was kind of the mission
00:27:17
that he was sending me on as well as, you
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know, really helping moms in what I call motherhood
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in that transition of maybe they've been a stay at home mom for,
00:27:29
you know, several years and now their kids are going to school and they feel
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this transition, they start to, you know, they don't really know who they
00:27:36
are in this new transition into motherhood or what they should be doing or what
00:27:40
their unique mission is. And so I really feel like he's called me to these
00:27:43
two unique things of helping women heal their relationship
00:27:47
with food and their body, as well as helping them grow and knowing who
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they are and what unique mission God is calling them to.
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And it's, I just have to
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reflect on, reflect back on how beautiful it has been and how
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the Holy Spirit was really my guide on the journey
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of healing and the journey of self discovery. And that
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it was really the Holy Spirit that kept pointing me in the right direction and
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revealing what I should do next. And I just want you to know that
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this gift is, is available to you too, that this gift of
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understanding is really going to help you with maybe
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these areas that you've been struggling with around your health and wellness or around
00:28:28
your purpose or your identity or what your unique mission is.
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And so this week I want you to spend some time maybe reflecting on your
00:28:36
temperament, taking some time to learn more about your
00:28:39
temperament and asking God, you know, how have you made me?
00:28:43
What are the strengths that you've given me? Where
00:28:47
do you want me to grow? And like I said, I'm going to put the
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link to take the temperament quiz from Metnoya
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Catholic in the show notes below, but then also check out the
00:28:58
temperaments workshop that's coming in our community. You can visit
00:29:01
community.caretroxa.com and it's going to be under the free
00:29:05
workshops. And it's a whole temperament workshop. It's going to take you through
00:29:09
step by step to help you understand what your unique temperament
00:29:12
is and how you show up in
00:29:16
contributions. What are the weaknesses of your unique temperament?
00:29:20
What are your ideal conditions? What are
00:29:23
the triggers and what are your motivations for
00:29:27
that specific temperament? And you get to claim them, you get to
00:29:31
own them. And this just starts to reveal
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more about who God created you to be. So be sure to check that out.
00:29:38
It's coming in the community. It's community care
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attracted.com it's a free workshop. It is available
00:29:45
to anybody who is either already in the community
00:29:49
or if you just simply join the community. You can check out that free temperament
00:29:53
workshop and then pray over your mission.
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Look at the specific season of life that you're in, your
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relationships, your gifts, your daily duties, and
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really ask the Lord, how are you inviting me to live out love today,
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Lord? Who do you want me to serve today? What unique
00:30:11
mission have you trusted me to right now?
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And when we stop trying to become someone else and start
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understanding who God made us to be, y' all, that is when we step
00:30:23
into so much freedom and so much peace,
00:30:26
we stop fighting our own design. We
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stop hiding, we stop comparing. And that is
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really when we begin to bloom, when we step into that full
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health and beauty of who God created us to be so we
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can uniquely live out that calling. So
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today I pray that the Holy Spirit floods your heart with understanding,
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to help you see your beauty, to understand your
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purpose and your life through God's eyes. And
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you are just such a beloved daughter
00:31:01
of God that he knows you deeply and he
00:31:04
designed you so beautifully and so good and
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y' all. So please, please, please share the podcast
00:31:12
with friends or a sister or a mom or a sister in law who,
00:31:16
who is in a season of life where maybe they're trying to navigate
00:31:19
motherhood or wellness with more peace and
00:31:23
purpose. And if you haven't already, please share
00:31:27
the podcast with somebody. And don't forget to tune in next
00:31:30
week for episode three of our Summer with the Holy
00:31:34
Spirit series. Thank you so much for spending this time
00:31:37
with me this week. Remember, beauty held is this
00:31:41
seed, Beauty shared is the flower. It is your time to bloom. I
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hope you have a beautiful and blessed week, and I'll see you right back here
00:31:48
next week. Talk soon. Bye.