Nadia Houle DAC, Indigenous Birthworker, Lactation Counsellor & Mentor

11/18/2025

I will never forget the words of Milton Wong (CEO i worked for & Order of Canada recipient) when i resigned from my position at HSBC Asset Management. He said “the best investment you will make is in your most important asset: your brain.”

I wanted a career that not only opened my heart, but helped me expand my brain, continually. I wanted to always learn.

I am the type of person that would walk into the “stacks” at UBC and want to read ALL the books - on every shelf on every floor on every subject. I would get overwhelmed because- my goodness! how on earth was i going to be able to achieve that! Since the dawn of time, we have been writing and there are SO. MANY. BOOKs.

My health has turned around - not because I wanted it to, but because God wanted me here. Still. I tried to leave 3x. He sent me back 3x.

So I surrendered to Faith. Atoned. Accepted. Forgave. and the Healing process started when I turned to original medicine (at the encouragement of Lisa Parish) and embraced it wholeheartedly.

Healing HAPPENED when I learned to trust the whispers from spirit. Remember the ego speaks first, and the ego speaks Loudest. Leaning into the whispers from God takes a keen awareness. It requires time spent in stillness, communion, nature and belief. It requires love for ALL of you - all the parts you don’t like, love or accept. And it requires you to look at those you dislike, disagree with, are in conflict with or have been wounded by - through the same eyes of love.

Your health matters. When you leave this earth, you will take one thing with you: your Last breath and perhaps feel someone’s had on your heart. That’s it. You will all the stuff you’ve accumulated behind.

This holiday season, consider sharing experiences based in love with your loved ones. Not more stuff or things, not the latest iThis or iThat. The question to ask is” Did I love well today - including myself and everyone I encountered?”

May there be peace on earth.

10/28/2025

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AMA Section of Pediatrics sent a letter to Minister of Education Nicolaides outlining concerns with the growing gap between children's needs in our classrooms and available classroom resources. https://www.albertadoctors.org/news/news/investing-in-classrooms-that-support-every-child/

10/28/2025

I was honoured to be asked to sit with a group of MacEwan BSW students today to discuss Indigenous birth, birth work, how culture and ceremony are an integral part of the work we do and why.

It was a nice break from my home office and laptop. To share space with folks talking about my heart work and all the hard work I have done to get to a place of walking this path with everything I have learned and experienced all woven so intricately together.

I’m excited to be moving towards the more medical side of birthwork (outside of my current clinical skill set) as our brand new cohort has started to venture through a community based Indigenous midwifery program that KAWCS is curating and creating with Metis midwife Melissa Cardinal Grant leading. We are grateful for the initiation of this pathway by the National Council of Indigenous Midwives (NCIM) back in 2020.

10/22/2025

I am so proud of my niece, Sage!!!!!!

What a journey it has been and you persevered through all the struggles you faced!

Please help us welcome Sage Thomas, Registered Midwife (Provisional), and a proud member of the Secwépemc Nation (T’kemlúps te Secwépemc)!

Sage is a graduate of the UBC Midwifery Education Program (Class of 2025). She has returned home to Kamloops to raise her three children, serve her community, and support the resurgence of Indigenous midwifery in Secwepemcúl’ecw 🧡

We are thrilled to support Sage at the beginning of her midwifery career. Sage is the first Indigenous Midwife [ Secwépemcstin: Kwéńle], licensed under the BC College of Nurses and Midwives, to live in and serve the people of her home Indigenous community!






Midwives Association of British Columbia

10/18/2025

So proud of my niece !!!!!

After a long and hard battle through the institutional system, she is a midwife!!!!!!

Exciting things are happening at Mighty Oak Midwifery! ❤️

Those moments when the stars align and babies wait while their midwives enjoy a quick lunch together 🙏🏼

Left to right: Sage Thomas, Angela Smith, Joanna Norman, Nicole Cant, Lisa Boyd.

10/18/2025

❤️ The different kinds of tears

09/30/2025

“You can change the world by just being a good mom” 💕 🫶🏽

What The Mother Teaches is a powerful look at the challenges facing Indigenous mothers in Canada, and the strength of their communities that support them.

09/30/2025

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Every child deserves the sun,
to feel its warmth upon their skin,
to run freely in the fields
where the earth remembers their name.

Every child deserves a song,
sung by ancestors in the wind,
a heartbeat of the drum
that tells them: you belong.

Every child deserves the dance,
feet wrapped in moccasins,
moving in circles of tradition,
their laughter echoing
like rivers that never end.

Every child deserves love,
arms that hold,
voices that soothe,
a place where tears are healed
and dreams are given wings.

For they are the fire yet to rise,
the guardians yet to grow,
the blossoms of tomorrow’s meadow—
and every child matters,
every single one.