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American schoolchildren have long been taught that their country was “discovered” by Christopher Columbus in 1492. But the history of Native Americans in the United States goes back tens of tens of thousands of years prior to Columbus’s and other colonizers’ arrivals. So, what’s the true history? Indigenous America introduces and amplifies the oral and written histories that have long been left out of American history books.

A podcast hosted by Canadian licensed Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychologists Drs. Jennifer Vriend, Laila Din Osmun, and Mary Simmering McDonald, C.Psych. Topics covered include a wide variety of subjects such as dealing with child anxiety, low mood, sleep difficulties and parenting issues. Guest speakers include other Child Psychologists and developmental professionals.

“I’m sorry to say you have breast cancer - an infiltrating lobular carcinoma to be exact,” said her doctor delivering the tough news right before Christmas 2013. “And there’s three ways we deal with breast cancer - cut, poison, and burn.” Such was the start of Jennifer McDonald’s "Big Breast Adventure", the name she gave to a series of blogs penned while going through two years of treatment. This audiobook is a compilation of these posts, hailed as a must-hear for anyone facing a life or health crisis and those who care for them.

Each of the laws in Deepak Chopra's The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success is examined in a series of essays by Jennifer McDon­ald, a run-of-the-mill person, small-business owner, and working mother. She's certainly no guru, but drawing from her own ordinary life experience, Jennifer takes these laws out for a spin and then imparts her sometimes surprising, usually off-center, yet always authentic conclusions.