The Wellness Ninja Podcast
by Heather Lindholm
Are you ready to become an expert in your own health? Overwhelmed by all the advice out there, especially since it often seems to contradict the other? The Wellness Ninja podcast is about equipping you with the tools and knowledge to be your own expert and to trust your choices. Stop looking for the one right answer to feeling amazing and learn how to use all the tools as you go. This podcast is aimed at providing you with both a lot of information and with the ability to know which information is best for you and how to use it. Oh and did I mention that it's not worth learning if you aren't having fun? Sometimes irreverent, often a giant goofball, I want you to have fun while having the big "ah-ha's".
Episodes
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EP46 Joy is a key ingredient to your health
After a few missed weeks (life, illness, the world feeling like it's on fire… you know), I'm back — and we're talking about something that might feel fluffy but absolutely is not: joy. In this episode, I share a quiet birthday-morning moment that stopped me in my tracks and reminded me, this is…
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EP45 All or Something
It's the end of January, the shine has worn off your New Year motivation, and suddenly the internet is yelling at you about five-step morning routines and perfect plans you're already "failing." In this episode, Heather lovingly calls bullshit on all-or-nothing wellness and introduces a much more...
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Your Body Isn't Being Dramatic
In this episode, I'm continuing the conversation around the mind–body connection, and going a little deeper into an idea that can feel both intriguing and confusing at the same time: your body is always giving you information. We'll talk about what that actually means in real life, why so many of...
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EP43 Experiments Are the New Resolutions
What if we stopped treating New Year's resolutions like magic wishes… and started treating them like experiments? In the first episode of 2026, I'm making a bold call: resolutions are out, and experiments are in. We're talking about why traditional resolutions create pressure, guilt, and...
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EP42 Coaching Explained: No Meal Plans, No Bullsh*t
What exactly does a health and life coach do—especially one who doesn't hand out meal plans or workout routines? In this episode, Heather breaks down the real heart of coaching: partnership, perspective shifts, curiosity, and the sometimes-messy middle between where you are and where you want to...
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EP41 From Skeptic to Practitioner: What Is BodyTalk
Ever tried explaining BodyTalk and felt like you were babbling about nonsense? Same. In this episode, Heather does her best to explain what BodyTalk actually is — without the jargon, the woo-woo overwhelm, or the "trust me, it works" hand-waving. You'll hear how she went from skeptical engineer...
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EP40 Your Plan Needs Tweaks
Life happens, and sometimes your health plan stops working… but that doesn't mean you've failed. In this final episode of the VIBE Method mini-series, Heather dives into evaluating and evolving your wellness strategy. Learn why health is a direction, not a destination, how to adapt your plan as...
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EP39 Plan Like a Human, Not a Robot
In this episode, we dive into the Build Your Plan step of the VIBE Method and break down how to create a realistic, sustainable health plan that actually works in real life. You'll learn the four essentials of effective habit-building: starting small, planning for the season of life you're in,...
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EP38 The Sneaky Stuff Holding You Back
In this episode, we're stepping into the second part of the VIBE Method: Identify. This is where we look beneath the surface and get curious about what's really getting in the way. Because that thing you think is the problem? Often, it's not the whole story. We'll talk about why surface fixes…
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EP37 Stop Chasing Goals- Start Chasing Feelings
Ever notice how you can hit your goals and still feel...meh? In this episode, we're kicking off a four-part series on my VIBE Method, starting with the "V" — Vision. But not the vision board kind. We're talking about creating a vision for how you actually want to feel in your life, not just what...
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EP36 Back In Your Earholes
After an unintentionally long four-year break, Heather is back in your earholes with a fresh season of The Wellness Ninja Podcast — the wellness podcast that helps you actually enjoy life while taking better care of yourself. In this reintroduction episode, she shares what really happened during...
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EP35 Curiousity Is Your Superpower
Everybody has a superpower. In fact, we all have the same superpower. For some of us it lays dormant, waiting to be discovered, for others we've discovered it but are using it against ourselves. This superpower is Curiousity! And not only did it not, in fact, kill the cat, it has the power to...
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EP34 Ate Healthy & My Health Fell Apart
Season 2 is here! I dive into the health journey of the last 18 months and share lessons learned (and relearned) and what practical steps I have been taking to improve my energy and health. It's been a humbling and hard journey and also I've grown so freaking much because of it.
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EP33 What To Do With Anger
I shared recently about all the anger I've been feeling lately and from the responses, it seems I'm not alone. We are all feeling a whole lot of big feelings and they can be overwhelming. Anger in particular can negatively effect your life. Acknowledging your feelings is important, knowing that...
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Ep32 Why You Want a Word to Guide Your Year
While I don't recommend resolutions or big audacious goals right now, I do think you want a word of the year to guide you. Are you familiar with having a word of the year concept? It seems silly but it can be a very powerful way to navigate the year, regardless of all the crazy stuff that…
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EP31 No Resolutions for 2021
No resolutions. No big goals. No 30/60/90 day reset. No 75hard. None of it. If New Years resolutions worked, 80% of them wouldn't be tossed by February. It's been a stressful year so how about we don't stress our nervous systems out more okay? Let's try a different approach this year. Lets…
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EP30 Practical Advice From a Naturopath
There's been a lot of advice lately about hand washing and social distancing, but there are a lot more ways to stay healthy this year. Today's episode is an interview with Dr. Marika Geiss. She is a board certified Naturopath and in this episode she gives a tonne of practical advice on how to…
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EP29 What Is Helping Me Now
Making sure we are doing the daily things that support our health is always important, but especially now when life has been upturned and flipped around. In today's episode I am sharing the things that are helping me really enjoy life right now and that allow me to support my health without it...
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EP28 No Right Way To Do This
There is a lot of judgement going around on how we are supposed to be handling this. By this I mean a global pandemic and countries shutting down and all sense of normal being thrown out. There is no right way to do this. And today's right way for you will look different than tomorrows. A…
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EP027 From Self Judgement to Self Acceptance with Riley Lawson
Today's episode is an interview with Confidence Coach Riley Lawson. She shares her journey from working in fashion and having a lot of self judgement to reaching a place of being tired of blaming others and taking responsibility for her life. She gives really helpful examples from her own life of...
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EP26 New Year, Same Damn You
It's January 2020 and reality check, you are the same person you were on December 31, 2019. There is nothing magical about the new year that transforms you into a new person. You have the same baggage, the same bullshit in your way. Let's take the pressure off to suddenly show up "new" and…
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EP25 Finding Your Inner Compass
Today I get to talk with the fabulous Kristin Pierce. She is an award winning author, an Advanced BodyTalk Practitioner and a Mindscape Instructor. We dive into her journey through cancer, the pivot in career that it caused, all things Mindscape and her new journey into being an author. We...
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EP24 Get Off the Thought Hamster Wheel
We can have the best intentions, we can have a plan, we can believe we have changed for the better. But when it comes to stressfull situations, like holidays with family, its surprisingly easy to suddenly be thrown back into your 14year old self and yelling at your brother while rolling your eyes...
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EP23 Facking Fear
Today I'm talking about the one thing everyone lets get in their way. Drumroll...it's fear. The truth is that fear is never going away, the jerk. There will always be things we are afraid of, most of them being the stories we tell ourselves. So we have to do 'the work' to get through. Only it's...
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EP22 Do What Works Challenge
We all have know that an apple is healthier for us than a donut. We all have habits that we know make us feel good, yet we aren't doing them. Today's episode dives into doing what works and issues a challenge for you.
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EP21 47 Days: A journey Home with Amanda Perrot
Amanda Perrot spent 47 days traveling around Saskatchewan, holding events for women to gather and share real conversations. Then she wrote a book about it. The book, 47 Days: A Journey Home, was so much more than I expected that I immediately had to interview her. In the interview we talked about...
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EP 20 Screw You Air Bike
This is a story about my hate of the air bike. Except it's not really. It's about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. It's about how those stories can limit us. It's about choosing to change the stories. It's also about that f**king air bike.
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EP19 Stealing Your Own Joy
Have you ever been really enjoying yourself and then suddenly found yourself with a feeling of dread? Or have you ever looked at your child and been filled with love and then pictured a horrible accident? Author Brene Brown refers to this as forboding joy. In todays episode I share my own...
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EP18 Shut Up & Never Get It Wrong
Ever had a thought, an idea, a project that had you really excited? Then the more time you thought about it, and more specifically the more you thought about people's reaction to it, the less excited you got? So you keep quiet. You silence your excitement and keep the thoughts bottle up inside...
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EP17 Turning 40
So a crazy thing happened last month- I turned 40! And to be honest it felt a lot different than I expected. Listen to hear how it really felt, all about your give-a-f*&k meter, and why it might matter to you.
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EP16 The Importance of Pleasure
Do you include pleasure in your self care? In your health care? I am speaking again this week with the lovely Robin Hilton and we are diving body first into the idea of pleasure being a crucial aspect of your health and well being. I'm also fairly certain it's the first time this podcast has had...
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EP15 Feelings Then Goals
Ever reached a goal and then thought 'well this doesn't feel as good as I thought it would'? What if you flipped traditional goal setting on its head? Today's episode is an interview with entrepreneur and coach Robin Hilton and she is going to give you a different way to set and reach your goals:...
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EP14 Radical and Practical Self Care
Self Care? Booo! Taking bubble baths isn't going to fix me and who has time for the spa!? Ever find yourself thinking those thoughts whenever some health guru starts talking about self care? Today I dive into what I think self care actually is (hint, you actually do it already) and how having…
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EP13 Collect The Right Evidence
Do you know how you want to feel? Or do you just know how you don't want to feel anymore? It's a surprisingly hard question to answer. And if we don't know how we want to feel, then our brain can't collect evidence to help us feel more of it. Listen to this episode to learn simple ways to use the...
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EP12 Resolutions, Schmesolutions
It's that time of year again- you know where you are hit with all the messages about how you need a new you, "here's 5 ways to change everything about yourself", and my favourite one "follow my program and I will solve all your problems". I am not a big fan of resolutions. I feel they convey the...
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EP11 Holiday Boundaries
Last week's episode was about how to prepare yourself for the Holiday season and all it's gatherings and how to see the good in people. Things aren't always so rosy and kind, nor do we control how other people behave, so we also need to talk about how to have strong healthy boundaries and a plan…
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EP10 How Do You Want to Show Up this Holiday Season
How do you want to show up this holiday season? Because I guarantee that Aunt Sue is going to keep being a jerk and Grandpa will keep making racist remarks. And no matter how good a comeback you have, you are not going to change them over Christmas dinner. So how can you prepare ahead of time to...
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EP09 East Meets West & Everyone Wins
Today's episode is an interview is with Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner Dr. Daniel Hoffman. We talk about how a lumberjack looking kid from the Prairies dived into the world of Chinese Medicine without even having experienced it himself, the shock of his first week at school, and what…
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EP08: 5 Simple Ways to Improve Your Day
Often it's the little things that we do consistently throughout our day that can make the biggest difference. They can help us continually course correct to get us to where we want to go- which is really about how we want to feel. This episode shares 5 simple things to do everyday to keep course...
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EP07 It's A Low Day
Today I'm feeling low and sharing what I do when that happens. It's unscripted and real. It's about feeling the feelings all the way through.
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EP06 Learn to Spew
Sometimes we just need to get all the thoughts, good, bad, & ugly, out of our heads. This can seem simple but there is a method to doing this that is most effective. Listen and learn to spew!
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EP05 Medical School to Medicine Teacher
From Medical school student to consciousness medicine teacher. Learn about Allison Bachmeiers journey through both and the lessons she learned. Key quotes from this episode: "I felt a kind of better I didn't even know existed" and "I am all about whatever works best and I don't care what we call it"
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EP04 Embrace the Suck
Embrace the Suck. Ever feel like you have trouble making decisions? Like your life is full of things you have to do and not want to do? What if instead of waiting for wonderful option C, you embraced sucky option A or sucky option B? What does that even mean!? Listen and find out.
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EP02 The #1 Mistake You Are Making in Your Health
Want to know the #1 Mistake you are making in your health? I see it all the time with clients, with my family and even still sometimes with myself. The answer is what I dive into in todays episode. You will also learn if you are a Pam or a Janet and why you actually want to be a little of both.
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EP03 Power of Observation for Healing
What if all you had to do for healing was just observe? Listen in as Dr. Tracey Clark shares her health story, going from professional dancer to Osteopath to a PhD in Integrative Medicine. It was a big journey of personal healing. We also discuss her fascinating research on the power of…
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EP01 Why You Want to Be a Wellness Ninja
Welcome to the Wellness Ninja Podcast. This first episode is all about what a wellness ninja is and why you want to be one. It's shorter than a regular episode and gives a taste of fun things to come, as well as a glimpse into my views on health.
About this show
Are you ready to become an expert in your own health? Overwhelmed by all the advice out there, especially since it often seems to contradict the other? The Wellness Ninja podcast is about equipping you with the tools and knowledge to be your own expert and to trust your choices. Stop looking for the one right answer to feeling amazing and learn how to use all the tools as you go. This podcast is aimed at providing you with both a lot of information and with the ability to know which information is best for you and how to use it. Oh and did I mention that it's not worth learning if you aren't having fun? Sometimes irreverent, often a giant goofball, I want you to have fun while having the big "ah-ha's".
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Heather Lindholm
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