God-Given Gifts in Real Life

Do you feel pressure to have your gifts, calling, or purpose all figured out by now?

In this episode of Love Notes for Tribe Beloved, Cortney offers a calming reminder: clarity doesn’t usually arrive all at once — and you’re not broken if you’re still discovering yourself. Through reflections on motherhood, faith, and lived experience, she shares how God often reveals our gifts gently, one small piece at a time.

This episode is an exhale for any woman who feels behind, confused, or unsure where to begin.

🪞💭Reflection Questions:

• What’s one strength that keeps showing up in your life?
• What’s one thing that seems to bring life — even if you don’t know what to call it yet?
• What’s one way you already help others, often without realizing it?

Mentioned in This Episode:

🎁 God-Given Gifts Chat Circle (begins January 21)

Next Step:

If you’re feeling a this is a “yes,” this is the final week to join the God-Given Gifts Chat Circle — a grace-filled group experience where we explore one God-given gift and one life-giving next step together.

👉 Save your spot for the God-Given Gifts Chat Circle

What if the moments when you feel most like yourself are telling you something worth noticing?The God-Given Gifts Chat is a free, personal coaching conversation where we’ll look at what’s going on in your life right now—and notice what your everyday experiences might already be showing you about how God made you.

You’ll walk away with:

✔ One part of your wiring named

✔ A clearer understanding of why it matters

✔ One real-life experiment to try next

If you’re ready to stop overlooking the clues already showing up in your life, let’s explore them together.

✨Start your God-Given Gifts Chat

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if the traits you’ve been trying to fix, manage, or apologize for aren’t flaws at all?

What if they’re evidence of how God designed you — on purpose?

In this episode of Tribe Beloved: Love Notes, Cortney reflects on enthusiasm, warmth, and emotional attentiveness — and how easily those gifts can be misnamed as “too much.” Through personal story, gentle reframing, and Psalm 139, this episode invites you to stop fixing yourself and start understanding how God wired you.

This is a permission-giving conversation for any woman who has ever wondered, “What’s wrong with me?” — and is ready to ask a better question.

🪞💭Reflection Question:

What’s a trait you’ve been managing or apologizing for that you’re starting to wonder might not be something to fix after all?

Mentioned in This Episode:

📖 Psalm 139:14

🎁 God-Given Gifts Chat Circle (begins January 21)

Next Step:

If you’re feeling a nudge to explore this more deeply, you’re invited to join the God-Given Gifts Chat Circle — a small, grace-filled group experience where we explore one God-given gift and one life-giving next step together.

👉 Save your spot for the God-Given Gifts Chat Circle

What if the moments when you feel most like yourself are telling you something worth noticing?The God-Given Gifts Chat is a free, personal coaching conversation where we’ll look at what’s going on in your life right now—and notice what your everyday experiences might already be showing you about how God made you.

You’ll walk away with:

✔ One part of your wiring named

✔ A clearer understanding of why it matters

✔ One real-life experiment to try next

If you’re ready to stop overlooking the clues already showing up in your life, let’s explore them together.

✨Start your God-Given Gifts Chat

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Cortney walks through a grace-filled, descriptive (not prescriptive) way to discern your Word of the Year. Instead of focusing on choosing the “perfect” word, she shares stories from her own life — Words like Intentional, Peace, Dwell in Grace, Choose Courage, Joy & Play, Delight, and Harmony — and how each one shaped her rhythms, decisions, and growth in surprising ways.

You’ll explore:

• what a Word of the Year really is (and what it’s not)
• how to let your Word emerge from your season
• why your Word doesn’t have to last 12 months
• how themes, desires, and repeated nudges play a role
• the question Cortney asks all her clients: “Who are you becoming?”
• simple prompts for choosing a life-giving, God-led Word

If you’re feeling pressure to pick the “right” word, this episode will feel like a breath of fresh air.

Links Mentioned:

• Article: How to Focus on Your Word of the Year → https://coffeechatsandyogamats.com/focus-word/ 
• Word of the Year Generator → https://www.mamasmiles.com/word-of-the-year-generator/ 
• God-Given Gifts Chat Circle Waitlist → https://coffeechatsandyogamats.kit.com/746c53306a

What if the moments when you feel most like yourself are telling you something worth noticing?The God-Given Gifts Chat is a free, personal coaching conversation where we’ll look at what’s going on in your life right now—and notice what your everyday experiences might already be showing you about how God made you.

You’ll walk away with:

✔ One part of your wiring named

✔ A clearer understanding of why it matters

✔ One real-life experiment to try next

If you’re ready to stop overlooking the clues already showing up in your life, let’s explore them together.

✨Start your God-Given Gifts Chat

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this short reflection, I share a recent moment of realizing I was making assumptions I didn’t even know I was making — and the humbling reality that sometimes we don’t know the questions we need to ask until we’re already in the thick of things. If you’re in a season where something you expected to be simple suddenly has layers, this one’s for you.

In this episode:

• navigating unexpected learning curves
• why “you don’t know what you don’t know” is both frustrating and comforting
• remembering: this is your first time doing this
• God’s presence in the places you didn’t know you needed help

Takeaway:

Learning curves aren’t failures. They’re part of being human — and God meets you right in the middle of them.

What if the moments when you feel most like yourself are telling you something worth noticing?The God-Given Gifts Chat is a free, personal coaching conversation where we’ll look at what’s going on in your life right now—and notice what your everyday experiences might already be showing you about how God made you.

You’ll walk away with:

✔ One part of your wiring named

✔ A clearer understanding of why it matters

✔ One real-life experiment to try next

If you’re ready to stop overlooking the clues already showing up in your life, let’s explore them together.

✨Start your God-Given Gifts Chat

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this Christmas Day voice-memo episode, Cortney offers a simple, heartfelt blessing for wherever this holiday finds you — joyful, chaotic, quiet, or tender. Through small snapshots of family life and a reminder of your unshakable identity as God’s beloved, this episode invites you to breathe, rest, and feel held. Plus, a gentle heads-up about end-of-year reflections and the upcoming God-Given Gifts Chat Circle.

In This Episode:

• A warm Christmas greeting and a peek into Cortney’s very real, very joyful household
• Why God meets us in our real life — not the perfected version of it
• The everyday holiness of noisy, messy, ordinary moments
• A tender reminder that your identity as “Beloved” doesn’t depend on capacity, mood, or season
• A Christmas blessing for peace, joy, gentleness, and God’s nearness
• A soft teaser about choosing a Word of the Year (coming later this week)
• A gentle invitation into the God-Given Gifts Chat Circle — a cozy, voice-and-text mini-retreat for rediscovering your God-given gifts

Resources Mentioned:

• God-Given Gifts Chat Circle Waitlist: https://coffeechatsandyogamats.kit.com/746c53306a - A small, intimate group experience beginning January 2026 — designed to help you notice and nurture one God-given gift in your current season.

What if the moments when you feel most like yourself are telling you something worth noticing?The God-Given Gifts Chat is a free, personal coaching conversation where we’ll look at what’s going on in your life right now—and notice what your everyday experiences might already be showing you about how God made you.

You’ll walk away with:

✔ One part of your wiring named

✔ A clearer understanding of why it matters

✔ One real-life experiment to try next

If you’re ready to stop overlooking the clues already showing up in your life, let’s explore them together.

✨Start your God-Given Gifts Chat

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today’s Love Notes episode, Cortney explores the freeing truth that God didn’t make a mistake when He designed you. Your wiring — your personality, quirks, strengths, sensitivities — isn’t a flaw to fix but a lens through which you reflect His creativity.

Through a personal story, coaching insights, and spiritual grounding, you’ll hear why so many women struggle with apologizing for how they’re wired and how understanding your design brings relief, alignment, and deeper partnership with God.

Cortney shares:

• why your personality isn’t “too much” or “not enough”
• how tools like MBTI and the Keirsey Temperament Sorter can bring clarity (but not identity)
• the difference between healthy growth and unhealthy self-contortion
• how embracing your design leads to peace, presence, and purpose
• a blessing for anyone exhausted from trying to be someone else

If you’ve ever felt behind, “too intense,” “too sensitive,” or just out of place… this one’s for you.

Links Mentioned:

• Embrace Your Potential Playbook: https://coffeechatsandyogamats.thrivecart.com/potential/
• Episodes referenced:
• 17. Beloved, You’re Not Behind - https://pod.link/1811875265/episode/NjkxNjI5YjZjNjZmODhiMDkyZGQ1ZTEy 
• 18. From Overwhelm to Ownership - https://pod.link/1811875265/episode/NjkxNjJhN2JjNjZmODhiMDkyZGQ5YmIz
• God-Given Gifts Chat Circle Waitlist: https://coffeechatsandyogamats.kit.com/746c53306a

What if the moments when you feel most like yourself are telling you something worth noticing?The God-Given Gifts Chat is a free, personal coaching conversation where we’ll look at what’s going on in your life right now—and notice what your everyday experiences might already be showing you about how God made you.

You’ll walk away with:

✔ One part of your wiring named

✔ A clearer understanding of why it matters

✔ One real-life experiment to try next

If you’re ready to stop overlooking the clues already showing up in your life, let’s explore them together.

✨Start your God-Given Gifts Chat

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A short Mini Note about:

Convoy of Hope’s “Feed the World for a Day” challenge.

Learn more: https://convoyofhope.org/oneday/

Garden City by John Mark Comer. 

Book link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23403781-garden-city 

Sermon series (optional): https://pod.link/1592847144/episode/YmYzYmM2MjQtMjQxOS00NWY3LWE3YmQtN2VjODllYzViY2Nk

Christian Media Doesn’t Have to Suck

Video link: https://youtu.be/AfqIAJ7bkQ0?si=cpnHx0KaVjCnNhgI

What if the moments when you feel most like yourself are telling you something worth noticing?The God-Given Gifts Chat is a free, personal coaching conversation where we’ll look at what’s going on in your life right now—and notice what your everyday experiences might already be showing you about how God made you.

You’ll walk away with:

✔ One part of your wiring named

✔ A clearer understanding of why it matters

✔ One real-life experiment to try next

If you’re ready to stop overlooking the clues already showing up in your life, let’s explore them together.

✨Start your God-Given Gifts Chat

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A short Mini Note about:

• Convoy of Hope’s “Feed the World for a Day” challenge. Learn more: https://convoyofhope.org/oneday/ 
• Garden City by John Mark Comer. 
• Book link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23403781-garden-city 
• Sermon series (optional): https://pod.link/1592847144/episode/YmYzYmM2MjQtMjQxOS00NWY3LWE3YmQtN2VjODllYzViY2Nk 
• Christian Media Doesn’t Have to Suck - Video link: https://youtu.be/AfqIAJ7bkQ0?si=cpnHx0KaVjCnNhgI

What if the moments when you feel most like yourself are telling you something worth noticing?The God-Given Gifts Chat is a free, personal coaching conversation where we’ll look at what’s going on in your life right now—and notice what your everyday experiences might already be showing you about how God made you.

You’ll walk away with:

✔ One part of your wiring named

✔ A clearer understanding of why it matters

✔ One real-life experiment to try next

If you’re ready to stop overlooking the clues already showing up in your life, let’s explore them together.

✨Start your God-Given Gifts Chat

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this voice-memo style episode, Cortney explores the idea that rediscovery might be one of God’s sweetest gifts — especially in transition seasons. Through simple, real-life stories about audiobooks, movement with kids, and holiday movies, she reflects on the sacredness of remembering who you’ve always been. Plus, a gentle invitation into January’s God-Given Gifts Chat Circle.

In This Episode:

• Why rediscovery often shows up in small, ordinary moments
• The surprising freedom of inviting kids into your joys instead of around them
• Anne of Green Gables, movement, and Hallmark movies (and why they matter)
• How God uses rediscovery — not just reinvention — to guide us
• A client story about remembering gifts she already had
• Why rediscovery is sacred, not selfish
• A gentle next step for exploring your own spark again

Resources Mentioned:

• January God-Given Gifts Chat Circle - Join the Waitlist: https://coffeechatsandyogamats.kit.com/746c53306a 
• Free God-Given Gifts Chat (1:1 Voxer): https://coffeechatsandyogamats.com/giftchat 
• Recharge + Refocus Experience (secret menu, email [email protected] if interested)

What if the moments when you feel most like yourself are telling you something worth noticing?The God-Given Gifts Chat is a free, personal coaching conversation where we’ll look at what’s going on in your life right now—and notice what your everyday experiences might already be showing you about how God made you.

You’ll walk away with:

✔ One part of your wiring named

✔ A clearer understanding of why it matters

✔ One real-life experiment to try next

If you’re ready to stop overlooking the clues already showing up in your life, let’s explore them together.

✨Start your God-Given Gifts Chat

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A short Mini Note about:

• wanting to share more personally without making it the “Cortney Show”
• honoring the privacy and dignity of your family
• the tension between connection and oversharing

What if the moments when you feel most like yourself are telling you something worth noticing?The God-Given Gifts Chat is a free, personal coaching conversation where we’ll look at what’s going on in your life right now—and notice what your everyday experiences might already be showing you about how God made you.

You’ll walk away with:

✔ One part of your wiring named

✔ A clearer understanding of why it matters

✔ One real-life experiment to try next

If you’re ready to stop overlooking the clues already showing up in your life, let’s explore them together.

✨Start your God-Given Gifts Chat

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.