Ashley Pimlott - Good Medicine Show Host

06/23/2025

🌊 Today, on Good Medicine with Squil‑le‑he‑le Raynell Morris…
We’re learning about the sacred journey of Sk'aliCh'elh‑tenaut—the orca once known as Tokitae and Lolita—and the powerful intersection of healing, ceremony, and environmental justice. 🐋🪶

In our soul-stirring conversation, we explore Resident Orca, the documentary tracing efforts to free Sk'aliCh'elh‑tenaut from the Miami Seaquarium and return her to the Salish Sea. Lummi Nation matriarch Raynell Morris shares how culture, ceremony, and community became a powerful current for change. ✨ We hear how the orca’s decades-long captivity mirrored a deeper trauma within Indigenous communities—and how song, prayer, and solidarity carried the hope for her homecoming. 🎶🕊️🤲

This is a story of 💔 love, 🌱 loss, and 💫 intergenerational healing. It’s a reminder that when we stand for the whales, we stand for our own future—and that our voices, like the orca’s song, are medicine. 🗣️🐚

🔗 To learn more, visit: https://www.orca.film
🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/raynellmorris_soundcloud?si=632bce71e8eb4e1398793bd7578b341f&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

06/16/2025

🎙️ This week on Good Medicine…
We gather in a circle of story, song, and survival.

Meet Shailla Manitowabi-Cooke Winter — Indigenous artist, truth-teller, and survivor. 💔🌿
As a teen, she faced homelessness and heartbreak. In 2012, she went missing — trafficked, silenced… but not broken.

Through music, Shailla found her way back. Her debut single “If You Were Mine” is a soul-stirring blend of R&B and resilience — a song stitched with longing, strength, and truth.

Today, she stands as a voice for the Missing and Murdered, for survivors of gender-based violence, and for anyone who’s ever had to rise from the ashes.

🧠✨ In this conversation, we explore:
🎶 Music as medicine
🔥 Turning grief into gold
🪶 Culture, intuition & healing
🌀 Survivor’s guilt, trauma, and triumph

💬 “Let her story remind you: You are not alone. Your voice matters. And your strength… is medicine.”

🎧 Listen now: https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/shaillawinter_soundcloud
🌐 Learn more: shaillawinter.com

Brought to you by Good Medicine, in partnership with CJNY, CFNR, and the First Nations Health Authority 💛

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06/14/2025

🎨 FNHA’s HPV Cancer Care Art Contest
🗓️ Deadline: June 30, 2025
🏆 Prizes up to $1,500!

First Nations individuals in BC aged 11+ are invited to express their perspectives on community wellness, HPV, and cancer prevention through visual art, storytelling, or poetry.

✨ Theme: For you, your future, your community — stand together against cancers caused by HPV.

🖼️ Submit up to 3 original works (no AI or photography) in any category:

Visual Art (paintings, digital, traditional)
Storytelling (written or oral, ≤500 words/4 min)
Poetry (written or oral, ≤20 lines)
💰 Early bird prizes: $50 for first 25 entries
🎉 Six $500 prizes split by age groups (11-18 & 19+)

📢 Winners announced August 2025; submissions become part of FNHA HPV resources.

📩 Questions? Email HPV@fnha.ca
🖱️ Submit here:
https://www.fnha.ca/about/news-and-events/news/join-fnhas-hpv-cancer-care-art-contest-and-win-up-to-1500?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=We%20Walk%20Together%20launch%20and%20more&utm_content=We%20Walk%20Together%20launch%20and%20more+CID_382d0c94b36c4c6d807e72d8c34d44fb&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Learn%20more
Learn more about HPV & vaccines: fnha.ca/hpv 🌿

The First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) invites First Nations individuals living in BC to participate in the HPV Cancer Care Art Contest. 

06/13/2025

🌿 We Walk Together • Virtual Community Project Launch

📅 Date & Time: July 15, 2025, 2:00–4:00 p.m. (via Zoom)
🔗 Register & Info: https://www.fnha.ca/about/news-and-events/news/join-us-july-15-for-we-walk-together-project-launch

Join FNHA’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer and BC’s Provincial Health Officer for a virtual 🎥 film screening and heartfelt dialogue, launching We Walk Together: Exploring Connection to Land, Water, and Territory.

Past regional gatherings in Fraser Salish, Northern, and Vancouver Coastal regions brought together Elders 👵🧓 and youth 👦👧 to share how land 🌍 and waters 💧 shape Indigenous wellness.

This initiative aims to inform a new wellness indicator—“connection to land”—rooted deeply in Indigenous knowledge 🌱 and cultural experience. Participants will help shape how BC measures and respects these profound connections in health practices.

It’s a powerful, cross-generational conversation about identity, resilience, and healing 🌟💖.

​The FNHA's Office of the Chief Medical Officer (OCMO), in partnership with the Office of the Provincial Health Officer (OPHO), is hosting a virtual film screening and discussion on July 15 to launch the findings of our joint research project, We Walk Together: Exploring Connection to Land, Water,...

06/09/2025

🌿 This week on Good Medicine: Part 2 with Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas 🪶

We widen the lens and journey deeper — into the heart of Indigenous leadership, and the art of honourable survival.
✨ What does it mean to live and lead with integrity, with imagination, and with love for the generations yet to come?

Michael doesn’t just share memories — he offers a living philosophy.
📚 A reminder that advocacy is more than resistance.
🤝 It’s about relationship.
🌍 Connection to land. 🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏾 To each other. 🧘🏽‍♀️ To self.

He invites us to care for our well-being — not as a luxury, but as a sacred responsibility. 💛
🌱 Because when we are rooted, we can rise.
🌊 When we are well, we can lead.
🔥 When we are connected, we are unstoppable.

🎨 To explore more of Michael’s powerful artistry and teachings, visit yahgulanaas.com and witness The Stand now on Knowledge Network. 🎥

🔊 Listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/good-medicine-e84-michael-nicoll-yahgulanaas-part-2?in=northernnative/sets/good-medicine-journey-fm&si=090e43deff9c467fa63494869bb7774c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

✨ 🖌️ 🌲 🪶 💪 🌊 🎶 📻 ❤️

CFNR Journey FM First Nations Health Authority Ashley Pimlott

06/09/2025

Check out GitxsanBushGirl heading to Rupert this week! 👀 🌱

EDIT: Registration is FULL !

Limited spots available! Join Gitxsan Bushgirl in making some cedar & sage medicine bundles this Thursday. RSVP by emailing info@tsmsyenculturesociety.org

06/02/2025

🌟 Good Medicine: Calling All First Nations — It’s Time to Get Active! 🌟

Movement is medicine for our bodies, minds, and spirits. The First Nations Health Authority invites you to embrace activity this summer — in whatever way feels good and meaningful to you.

Whether it’s a walk through the forest, a dance with family, traditional games, or simply stretching under the open sky, every step reconnects us to our health, culture, and community.

This is more than exercise — it’s a celebration of resilience, strength, and joy rooted in our lands and stories.

Are you ready to get moving and feel that Good Medicine flow? Let’s walk, run, dance, and play together — our way, our pace, our power.

Learn more about programs and ways to participate:
🔗 fnha.ca/about/news-and-events/news/calling-all-first-nations-its-time-to-get-active


CFNR Journey FM First Nations Health Authority Ashley Pimlott

​​Spring is in the air! The sun is shining brighter, the flowers are blooming, and many of us are getting outside to enjoy the warmer weather and the beauty of nature. All of this makes it a great time to jumpstart our physical health by committing to being more active.

06/02/2025

🌿 Good Medicine: Honouring Our Connection to Land 🌿
What does summer on the land look like for you?

Whether it's the quiet stillness of a sunrise over the lake, the laughter of children running through tall grass, or the sacred rhythm of hands gathering medicines — these moments matter. They are Good Medicine.

Our friends at the First Nations Health Authority are inviting you to share your summer photos that celebrate your connection to land. This is more than a photo call — it’s a chance to uplift Indigenous relationships with the land, honour ancestral knowledge, and reflect on what grounds us.

📸 Take a moment to be still. Witness. Capture. Share.
Let your photo be a prayer, a story, a teaching.

🔗 Submit your images and learn more: fnha.ca/about/news-and-events/news/honouring-our-connection-to-land-share-your-summer-photos


CFNR Journey FM First Nations Health Authority Ashley Pimlott

“Being in the mountains, being at the lake, being on the canoe. These are all ways our people have healed over the last hundreds of years."  - Mavis Pierre, Katzie Nation  ​​

06/02/2025

🎙️✨ Today on Good Medicine with Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas…

We are learning about The Stand — the 1985 Haida blockade against industrial logging. 🌲✋ A moment etched into the bark of old-growth trees, carried in the hearts of those who were there ❤️, and now brought to the screen in the new National Film Board release: The Stand, directed by Christopher Auchter. 🎬🪶

Our special guest is Christopher’s uncle — a powerful knowledge keeper, visual artist, and one of the hearts behind this history — Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. 🧠🎨🧓

Michael stood on the front lines of the 1985 blockade. Through him, we come to understand how a seemingly isolated act of defiance 🌊🌿 rippled into national and legislative change. 🧱📜 And how the calm, quiet strength of Indigenous people — especially guided by the elders 👣🦅 — created an unstoppable force of dignity. ✊

It’s easy to think of activism as loud, confrontational, chaotic 🔊⚡— but Michael reminds us that the most transformative movements are often the ones rooted in calm, clarity, and kinship. 🤝🧘‍♂️🌱

Michael will also share how this blockade was a masterclass in emotional intelligence — how humility and empathy 🤲❤️ led to unexpected alliances. The Stand, the film, is more than a documentary — Michael sees it as a workshop, a living, breathing resource. 🎥🌬️📚 A story that doesn’t just look backward, but forward ➡️🌅 — reminding us what’s possible when we lead with care, courage, and clarity. 🛶🔥💡

We’ll also hear about what Michael calls “undiluted potential” — the belief that just beyond the visible edge of things lies a future we haven’t dared to imagine yet. ✨🌌🌊

🎧 Listen now:
https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/good-medicine-e83-michael-nicoll-yahgulanaas-the-stand?si=481592c1f95f455faf6921d6cb0fe2f7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

🪶💬💫

CFNR First Nations Health Authority Journey FM Ashley Pimlott

05/28/2025

Today on Good Medicine with Michelle Thrush…

We explore how storytelling and laughter can be powerful medicine for the spirit. ✨

Michelle Thrush — actor, storyteller, and the force behind Kukum Martha — invites us into the world of Inner Elder, her one-woman show rooted in humour, vulnerability, and healing. ❤️

From Calgary to the stage, Michelle shares how Inner Elder came to life and why laughter and truth-telling are vital in our journeys.

Tune in as we reflect on the medicine of story, the strength in vulnerability, and the joy of remembering who we are.

🎧 Listen now:
https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/good-medicine-e82-michelle-thrush-inner-elder?si=382a0614c25e419a9eb5bda1b13a2672&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sha
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05/19/2025

🔥 Today on Good Medicine… 🔥

What if fire wasn’t just about destruction—but restoration?

In this powerful episode, we sit down with Matt Nelson, wildfire specialist and new leader of the Salish Unit Crew, BC’s last all-Indigenous wildfire crew. Featured in Episode 5 of the Wildfire docu-series on Knowledge Network, Matt shares how fire becomes ceremony, stewardship, and sacred connection to the land.

He’s stepping into the boots of a 36-year veteran—carrying forward traditional ecological knowledge, reclaiming cultural fire practices, and igniting the path for future Indigenous firekeepers.

This is a story of legacy, land, leadership… and how fire, when guided by ancestral wisdom, can be Good Medicine.

🎧 Listen now:
https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/mattnelson_soundcloud?si=2d9741ecdc864e46809a914b175d236a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

📺 Watch Wildfire on Knowledge Network
🌐 Learn more at fness.bc.ca
📻 Find more episodes at cjnyfm

05/12/2025

🦅✨ Today on Good Medicine with Raven Lacerte, co-founder and executive director of the Moose Hide Campaign...

We take one step—one sacred breath—toward ending gender-based violence by sharing stories, hope, resources, and a little Good Medicine. 💛🧡

Raven shares how this movement was born along the Highway of Tears, forged in the sacred bond between a father and daughter who could no longer stay silent. 🚗🛣️ What began with one moose, one hide, has become a national call to action:
🔸 Wear the square
🔸 Fast in solidarity
🔸 Stand for the safety of Indigenous women and girls

The Moose Hide Campaign reminds us:
It’s not just policy—it’s prayer.
Not just awareness—but awakening.

🪶 This campaign is a movement. A medicine.
It’s a call for men and boys to rise, and for all of us to look deeply and act boldly. Because the safety of our future belongs to everyone. 🌍🫶

👉 Learn more at: https://moosehidecampaign.ca

🎧 Listen now at: https://soundcloud.com/northernnative/moosehide_soundcloud?si=6c7a2c7670a944a6be401987714d5be5&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sha

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