God-Given Gifts in Real Life

In this voice-memo-style episode, Cortney unpacks her complicated relationship with the word gentle—and why the biblical definition feels nothing like the pastel, spa-vibe image she tends to resist. She shares how God has been whispering her forward into a new understanding of gentleness, why seasonality matters for our capacity, and how limits can be an expression of God’s kindness. Plus, a gentle invitation into January’s God-Given Gifts Chat Circle.

In This Episode:

• Why the word “gentle” used to make Cortney cringe
• The difference between cultural gentleness and biblical gentleness
• How God nudges us into new seasons (instead of shoving us into them)
• The beauty of limits and how they guide us
• Real-time reflections from an intuitive feeler + overprocessor
• How to hold ideas without acting on them right away
• A picture of God’s tender, patient leadership
• A gentle next step for exploring your season and gifts

Resources Mentioned:

• January God-Given Gifts Chat Circle - Join the Waitlist: https://coffeechatsandyogamats.kit.com/746c53306a 

Free God-Given Gifts Chat (1:1 Voxer) — mentioned briefly as context:  https://coffeechatsandyogamats.com/giftchat

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 Thanksgiving reflection on the quiet, courageous gifts of the women we walk alongside — and why their faithfulness matters more than they know.

Philippians 1:3

Snapshots of women showing up with courage

Gifts God reveals in ordinary life

Gratitude for the women of Tribe Beloved

If one small thing comes to mind that you’re thankful for, I’d love for you to share it — just hit reply to the email or send me a note at [email protected].

Grab a free God-Given Gifts Chat and we’ll explore it together: coffeechatsandyogamats.com/giftchat

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 Advent didn’t need to be Pinterest-perfect or beautifully orchestrated to be meaningful? In this voice-memo style episode, Cortney shares her honest journey with Advent — from discovering it as an adult to practicing it imperfectly with her family — and offers gentle encouragement for anyone who feels behind, new to Advent, or worried about “doing it right.”

You’ll walk away with grace, simple ideas, and permission to let Advent be an invitation, not an obligation.

🌿 Reflection Prompt

Where might God be inviting you to practice presence instead of perfection this Advent season?

💛 Gentle Next Step

If you’d love a simple way to begin, you can download Cortney’s free Family + Couple Advent Calendar — a low-stress way to bring Scripture and connection into your home without adding pressure.

👉 https://coffeechatsandyogamats.thrivecart.com/advent-calendar/

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.

Have you ever had a moment when you were so in the flow that you thought, “I was made for this”? In this episode, Cortney invites you to remember those golden moments — the times when you felt aligned, present, and fully yourself — and explore what they reveal about how God designed you.

Learn how to use those memories as a map to move from overwhelm to ownership, so you can live and lead from peace instead of pressure.

In this episode of Love Notes for Tribe Beloved, Cortney helps you reflect on your “flow moments” as clues to your God-given design. Through practical coaching questions and gentle faith-based reflection, she’ll show you how to:

• Identify what alignment feels like for you — and why it matters.
• Use your “golden moments” as guideposts when life feels heavy.
• Recognize the difference between doing everything and doing what’s yours to carry.
• Realign with the “unforced rhythms of grace” Jesus invites us into (Matthew 11:28–30).

You’ll walk away with simple, doable steps to own your energy, reconnect with joy, and live like the beloved woman God made you to be.

Reflection Prompt:

• What’s weighing me down right now — and what truth from my ‘flow moments’ might help lift that weight?

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.

Ever feel like you should be further along by now—in your faith, your calling, or just life in general? This honest, heart-to-heart conversation is your reminder that God’s timeline for you is never late. Cortney shares stories from her own seasons of waiting, encouragement from Ephesians 2:10, and coaching questions to help you trade striving for stewardship and grace. You’re not behind—you’re becoming.

Reflection Questions:

• What’s God growing in me now that future-me will thank Him for?
• Where might I be called to tend rather than chase?
• What if I truly believed that my calling isn’t waiting somewhere in the distance, but being lived out right here, today?

Mentioned in this episode:

• Ephesians 2:10 — “For we are God’s workmanship…” 
• The word workmanship in Ephesians 2:10 comes from the Greek poiēma—the same root as poem.
• The focus: “You’re not behind; you’re becoming.”
• The idea that every season has an assignment: the slow teaches surrender, the full teaches capacity, and the in-between teaches faith.

💌 Let’s connect:

Have thoughts or reflections? I’d love to hear them—email me at [email protected].

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 thoughtful mom discovers her ISFJ design and learns that peace isn’t something to earn—it’s something to live from. Join Cortney for a conversation about embracing your wiring and walking in freedom.

Episode Notes:

• Theme: Identity & Design
• Key Idea: The traits you downplay might be the very gifts God intends you to delight in.

Reflection Prompt: Where might you need to give yourself permission to be cozy, quiet, and fully yourself today?

Do-Able + Fun Action Step: Schedule your free God-Given Gifts Chat to uncover 1 gift + 1 personalized next step: https://calendly.com/ccym/ccc

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.

Ever taken a spiritual gifts quiz and thought… “That’s it?” Maybe the options didn’t fit. Maybe your results felt flat. Maybe the quiz just didn’t see the way you love and lead in real life.

You’re not alone.

In this episode, Cortney explores what Scripture really says about gifting—and how God’s creativity goes far beyond Paul’s lists in Romans or 1 Corinthians.

🎧 What you’ll hear:

• Why Paul’s spiritual gift lists were never meant to be complete
• Examples of biblical gifts that don’t fit our modern categories
• Modern-day gifts (yes, yours!) that matter deeply to God

✨ Gentle Gospel-Grounded Coaching: From artistry to orientation, nutrition to noticing—God plants gifts far beyond a multiple-choice form. Don’t limit your calling to someone else’s categories. Your design is intentional.

👉 Reflection Prompt: Where do you see God’s fingerprints in your everyday? What gift are you beginning to see in a new light?

📬 Email Cortney at cortney(at)coffeechatsandyogamats.com to share your story—or just say, “I think I found one.”

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.

You took the personality quiz. Maybe even highlighted a few lines that felt spot-on. But now that “aha” moment is buried in your inbox—or shoved in a drawer. So… now what?

In this episode, Cortney Loui shares why personality insights are just the start—and how they become transformation when you build them into your actual hours.

🎧 What you’ll hear:

• The simple shift that turns self-awareness into sustainable rhythms
• Four practical “on-ramps” to apply what you’ve learned about yourself
• How honoring your wiring is actually faithful stewardship

✨ Gentle Gospel-Grounded Coaching: 1 Peter 4:10 reminds us to “use whatever gift you have received to serve others.” That includes your natural rhythms, energy patterns, and preferred ways of operating. Stewarding your wiring is not selfish—it’s part of your calling.

👉 Reflection Prompt: What’s one insight from your personality results that you’re ready to put into practice this week?

📬 Email Cortney at cortney(at)coffeechatsandyogamats.com to share your one thing (and get a little encouragement back).

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.

Ever share something you’ve learned from a personality tool—only to get a polite smile or an eye-roll? In this episode Cortney Loui shares why personality assessments aren’t just a quiz thing, but a way to notice and name the gifts God has already placed in you.

Full Show Notes

Have you ever shared a personality insight that lit you up—only to hear, “Isn’t that just a quiz thing?”

If so, you know the sting of loving something others don’t quite understand.

In this episode, Cortney Loui (Christian life coach, speaker, and stay-at-home mom) explains why personality tools are more than entertainment. Drawing on Romans 12:6 and 1 Peter 4:10, she shows how assessments act like maps, not boxes, helping you spot and steward the unique gifts God has given you.

Along the way, Cortney reminds you that it’s not your job to convince anyone of the value of these tools. Run your race. Put into practice what you’ve learned. Their dismissal doesn’t diminish your worth—or the gifts God planted in you. And who knows? Your quiet glow-up might be what sparks their curiosity one day.

Listen in to discover:

• Why personality assessments are maps, not verdicts
• How these tools help you name and nurture your God-given gifts
• A gentle reminder that you don’t have to convince skeptics—living your design speaks louder than words

👉 Reflection Question: Who in your life doesn’t quite “get” your love of personality tools, and how have you explained the real value to them? Share your story with Cortney at [email protected] (remember—no “u” in Cortney!).

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 things you think are flaws… are actually the way God wired you on purpose?

Ever feel like your brain isn’t working the way it should? Or that if you could just “get it together,” you’d finally catch up?

In this episode, Cortney shares what it looks like to honor your wiring—especially during chaotic, unpredictable seasons. Whether you're a dreamer with a foggy brain, a planner in a life with no margin, or just someone trying to figure out what’s next, you’ll hear encouragement to embrace your God-given wiring… not battle against it.

🎧 In this episode:

• Why your desire for clarity and structure isn’t a flaw
• A few practical rhythms Cortney’s using to support her own wiring
• A gentle reminder: You’re not behind. You’re human.
• A simple invitation to name what’s been on your heart

👉 Reflection Prompt: What’s one area where you’ve been judging yourself for how you’re wired? What would shift if you saw that trait as a gift—not a flaw?

Want to talk it out with someone who gets it?

Schedule a God-Given Gifts Chat with Cortney—a free Voxer voice/text chat to reflect, explore your wiring, and name one gift (and one step) to carry forward.

🗓️ Book your God-Given Gifts Chat here →

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.