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Nadia Houle DAC, Indigenous Birthworker, Lactation Counsellor & Mentor

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Nadia Houle DAC, Indigenous Birthworker, Lactation Counsellor & Mentor

Indigenous owned space created for rest, rejuvenation and healing through acupuncture and craniosacral therapy

Dr. Nadia Houle is a mixed race nehiyaw iskwew, whose ancestral territories lie around the Dunvegan & Spirit River area, located in the northern Treaty 8 Territory. Dr. Houle is a registered acupuncturist, birthworker, lactation counsellor and reproductive health advocate. She is the founder and visionary of Indigenous Birth of Alberta, a grassroots organization formed in 2016. Dr. Houle has been providing childbirth education, pregnancy and birth support for over 19 years throughout the Treaty 6 Territory. Her acupuncture, traditional medicines and ceremonial teachings are naturally woven into her birthwork, allowing her to provide support from all four directions. She enjoys mentoring birthworkers and community members to begin their learning about reproductive health through a traditional lens within a modern context. Dr. Houle lives and resides in Edmonton, with her partner and their blended family of 8, where they are well known in the ceremony community as helpers and role models. Her western education includes a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology, a Diploma of Acupuncture, training from DONA (Doulas of North America) as well as numerous traditional teachings from her relatives, elders and knowledge keepers.

09/24/2025

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09/22/2025

Our culture glorifies chemistry, but the truth is: Healthy relationships are built on nervous system safety.

We live in a world that often confuses excitement for connection and sparks for compatibility. But real intimacy is not about butterflies that fade or the adrenaline rush of uncertainty — it’s about calm. It’s about knowing your partner won’t punish you for expressing your needs, won’t disappear when things get hard, and won’t minimize your feelings just because they don’t understand them.

We can’t heal in relationships fueled by emotional immaturity. Emotional instability keeps us in survival mode, constantly scanning for danger instead of resting in safety. We can’t grow with partners who lack the capacity to take accountability, because without ownership, there can never be repair. We can’t regulate our nervous system in inconsistency, where one day we feel chosen and the next discarded. That kind of love doesn’t heal — it harms.

Chemistry alone won’t carry you through the storms of life. When grief, loss, financial stress, or uncertainty hit, it’s not passion that keeps you steady, but presence. It’s not attraction that sustains you, but reliability. It’s not intensity that heals you, but tenderness.

At the end of the day, chemistry can light the fire, but safety, trust, and consistency are what keep it burning. Love that lasts isn’t about how good it feels in the beginning — it’s about how safe, supported, and understood you feel along the way.

09/21/2025

Mindful of temperature of drinks! Also, full tummy, not an empty tummy!

09/19/2025

It’s beyond the substances.

Getting sober was not just about drugs and alcohol.
I also had to detox from anger, fear, resentment and hate.

09/16/2025

Our first Kistehitah kimeskanām - honour your journey/road workshop this Fall will be an adult moccasins class!

In keeping with the vision of this project, the moccasins made at this workshop will stay with our Society to go into ceremony and then be gifted to families who have a loved one journeying back to the spirit world.

This workshop will take four days/two weekends to complete. Folks who attend are asked to commit to Sept. 27-28 and Oct. 25-26 (10 am to 6 pm all four days).

We have three spots open. Register at https://www.kihewawasiswakamik.com/event-details-registration/adult-moccassins-kistehitah-kimeskanam-2025-09-27-10-00

Kistehitah kimeskanām is a project arising from the identification of unmarked graves at former residential school sites across Turtle Island. It comes from a vision of a path lined with baby moccasins leading to a beautiful healing lodge. A pipe ceremony was held for the start of this project with Elder Ruth Cardinal de Ubiera in 2021.

The moccasins (maskisina), moss bags (wâspisona) and crib sized star blankets created as part of this project will honour the children who were sent to the schools, the new spirits coming into the world today and spirits journeying home.

An Elder or knowledge keeper will join us to share teachings and language.

You will go home with skills that can be used to make more crafts and be shared with others. Take home patterns and instructions will be provided.

Questions? Email kistehitahkimeskanam@gmail.com

Much gratitude to our funder ECALA and our partner Dickensfield Amity House for making these workshops possible.

09/11/2025

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10869 96st
Edmonton, AB
T5H2K1

Opening Hours

Monday	12pm - 7pm
Tuesday	10am - 2:30am
Thursday	10am - 2:30am

Website

https://womensbalancehealth.janeapp.com/

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