How Knowing Your Temperament Can Deepen Your Faith and Relationships

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Religion & Spirituality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week, I’m talking with the wonderful Rosemary Berry—author, wife, mom, teacher, and pilgrimage planner—about one of my all-time favorite topics: the four temperaments and how they show up in the lives of the saints (and in our own lives, too!).

Rosemary’s new book, Piety and Personality: The Temperaments of the Saints, dives into how God uses our unique personalities—yes, even the parts we struggle with—to help us grow in holiness. In this fun and inspiring conversation, we talk about:

* What the four classic temperaments are (sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic)

* Why understanding your temperament is so helpful for your spiritual growth

* How different saints reflect the strengths (and weaknesses!) of each temperament

* How we can use our natural gifts—and even our flaws—for God’s glory

* What Winnie-the-Pooh characters can teach us about the temperaments 😉

Plus, I share which temperament I really am (spoiler: it surprises people!), and we talk about how knowing your temperament can help you show more charity and patience toward others, too.

Rosemary Berry also shares about her beautiful work planning pilgrimages and how we can all draw closer to Christ through the lives of the saints.

If this conversation encouraged you, would you send it to a friend or share it on social media? That’s how we keep growing this beautiful community—one girlfriend at a time.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to
0:05.6	help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in daily living.
0:09.9	This week, our special guest is author Rosemary Berry here to talk about temperaments,
0:14.1	personalities, and the Saints. Can't wait to get started. Let's go.
0:20.7	Hey girlfriend, how are you so happy you're able to share here today in the podcast with me?
0:26.3	Thrilled we're able to connect like this.
0:28.3	Before we dive into today's content and today's interview, I just want to give a big shout
0:32.2	out to Marianne in Wisconsin, who emailed me this week to say that she listened to an older
0:37.3	episode of the
0:38.0	Girlfriend's podcast from several years back while she was folding laundry and that when I talked
0:43.4	about letting go of perfection, it made her cry. And I thought, now there is a cliche, if ever
0:50.5	I've heard one, right? This Catholic mom folding laundry listening to the girlfriend's
0:54.4	podcast and crying about letting go of perfectionism. And yet, I love it. That's what we're here for.
1:01.1	That's what this is all about. That kind of personal connection that speaks to you right where you
1:06.1	are, speaks to your heart and the things that you are personally struggling with. We have so many things
1:12.2	in common as Catholic women. I don't know exactly which episode of the podcast it was that Marianne
1:16.8	was listening to, but I love that through time and space and the grace of God, we're able to connect
1:22.5	through the miracle of podcasting. And you can listen and the Holy Spirit can be at work in that.
1:28.4	I have no idea what I said. And I'm so grateful that God knows what I said and that he is a part
1:34.3	of what we share here on girlfriends and that God can use me to speak to you. I think that's
1:40.2	such a beautiful thing. Such a beautiful thing happens when women get together and encourage and
1:44.9	support each other, affirm our gifts together, but then talk about the really hard things sometimes,
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