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As a certified Grief Recovery Specialist, one of the loss events which often seems to be almost shunted to the side if the death of a beloved animal companion.  When our pet dies, indeed, often our relationship with our animal companions are often ones of unconditional love.  There was all the time, affection, love, licks and cuddles.  And we miss them.  Pet Bereavement for a griever is another loss event.  In the Grief Recovery Process (from the Grief Recovery Institute), we do not compare losses.   Each relationship and loss is unique. 

Indeed, grievers want the loss acknowledged.  However, often the bereaved are looking for is a compassionate and knowledgeable person to help them practically with the emotions surrounding the loss event.  The Grief Recovery Program provides a compassionately supportive environment and sequence of practical action steps in a seminar workshop format (typically 7 sessions for One on One, and 12 two hour sessions for a group workshop)

Grievers who are grappling with Pet Bereavement and who find that they really can't talk about it elsewhere are welcomed compassionately and with open arms at the Grief Recovery Seminar.  Pet Loss Grievers approach me both via the internet as well as in person.  They are almost dismayed to find how much the loss of their beloved pet affected them.  Grieving over a loss event is natural and normal. 

This summer 2009, is made available in Orange County, including serving the cities of Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Long Beach and the surrounding areas.

Best regards,

April Braswell

Grief Recovery, Widow Support, Bereavement Support and Counseling Seminar, Orange County, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach

Now that I am in Orange County in the Huntington Beach/Newport Beach/Costa Mesa area, as a certified Grief Recovery Specialist, I am being asked if I am offering the Grief Recover Process here locally.  Yes I am.  Many grievers are searching the internet under such topics as bereavement, grief support, and bereavement support groups.  And I am always find widow support groups. 

Below please find The Grief Recovery Institute's co-founder, John James, talk about how the Grief Recovery Seminar (he refers to it as the Grief Recovery Outreach Program) differs from "Support" groups whose focus is solely to talk about the loss and the grief.

Best regards,

April Braswell

Grief Recovery, Widow Support, Bereavement Support and Counseling Seminar, Orange County, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach

I've been talking with local small-medium size business owners here in the Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, and Huntington Beach areas of Orange County.  Turns out the statistic that 34% of businesses still don't have a website up is quite accurate.

What is even more true is how many of them have websites up which are dreadful from any kind of an internet marketing perspective. No SEO, no Search Engine Optimization, no Social Media Marketing, no dominating Google page one, no long tail words.  No nada nothing.

Now the thing is, some business owners were sold a bill of goods by some web design company and they have a website. And they know it's not doing anything for their business.  But they're embarrassed to talk about their perceived failure when after all their great skill set and specialty is their business, not the marketing of it.

While PromoteYouOnline, Inc. predominately serves Orange County based business owners, because of the joys of webinar technologies, we do have clients in other regions of the United States.  Typically customers are able to reduce their ad and marketing costs by 50% in the first 30 days and increase their revenues by 23%.

Not bad for saving some money, eh?

Happy Selling!

April Braswell

Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Orange County SEO, Web Design, Social Media Marketing

Today June 9, 2009 (or 9 June, 2009 if you're outside of The States!) is the BONUSES day for Dave Lakhani's Hot New Sales Success Book, How To Sell When Nobody's Buying.

You'll want to go grab your copy of Dave's book here at Amazon (not even an affiliate link, I'm just so impressed with Dave as a Applied Persuasion Sales Guru that I'm amping this so others benefit as well):  How To Sell When Nobody's Buying

After you grab your copy today, bop on over to the book's website to grab your really cool rock star valuable bonuses, click here>>> To Grab Your Bonuses

Dave's Sales and Persuasion books for sales people, small - medium size business owners, and entrepreneurs are consistently best sellers.  You'll want to get your copy today not only to GET the book but also to grab the bonuses.

To your great success!

April Braswell

There's a new kid in town, and I'm doing him a special favor to amplify his website presence.

Plastics Extrusion & Recycling Machinery

Their background is they sell capital machinery to the Plastics Manufacturing industry in an eight state territory.  They are in our tenth year!

Doing our bit as SBOs to move the economy forward!

I met Las Vegas Hypnotist, Ken Owens, via Kevin Hogan 2 years ago.  He is an excellent public speaker for Non Profits on their Communication Skills as well an entertaining hypnotist for corporate events.  Part of what is so neat about Ken's approach, is he undergirds the entertainment factor with science and research about The Brain and how it functions.  So his hypnosis CDs work in positive ways with how your mind thinks rather than running counter to it.  Recently I acquired one of his CDs, am finding it so effective and helpful that I am now contemplating which of his CDs to get next.  Check out his site.  He is excellent.  And also offers a free monthly newsletter with helpful tips.

Until then,

Happy Dating and Relationships!

April Braswell
Letting Go an Moving On: Divorce and Grief Recovery in Henderson and Las Vegas

Hi.  A number of my regular followers have been asking me for the URL for my new Dating Advise and Tips Blog.

here it is: Easy Dating Advise and Tips Blog

I will continue to cite the url and keep things up here at VOX periodically.  Just not DAILY!

Happy Dating!

All the best,

April Braswell
Dating Expert  and Relationship Coach

Hi folks.  Tee hee.  Well, both I AND my blog have moved!

I am settling into Las Vegas.  I am almost used to sipping enough water to be sufficiently hydrated during the day.

As for my Easy Dating Tips blog, I have also moved that.

I'll post reminders here periodically to remind you when I have posted to me NEW blog:

April Braswell's Easy Dating Tips Blog

yes indeed,

I am receiving a number of queries...

"April, I read your Connecting with April Braswell Ezine.  is it true? are you moving to Las Vegas? and if so, WHEN?"

well, yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa Claus.

It's TRUE!

I am moving to Las Vegas!

I'm responding also to a number of requests for more seminars, in fact for men in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties.  I have quiet a lot of them regularly reading my ezine.  Thank you.  And naturally they are wanting their dating and Intimacy Guaranteed questions answered.  I will address that live in the Las Vegas seminars..

Meanwhile, thank you for all of your concern.  YES I am super busy with packing to move to Las Vegas.

I will surface again SOON to attend Kevin Hogan's Influence Boot Camp.

In between, I am not taking any new dates and am packing lots of boxes and jettisoning STUFF!

On the romantic sex singles dating sphere, that is an excellent metaphor for all of us:  jettison STUFF to make room for a new girlfriend or boyfriend.

How many bags and boxes can YOU donate to Goodwill?

All the best

and

Happy Dating!

April Braswell

Online Dating Coach and Dating Expert

April Braswell and Joel Bauer Passion2Profit

With all the media approaching me this week as a Online Dating Coach and Dating Expert, I'm continuing my series this week in support of dating singles and committed couples - both of the significant others ilk and married folks on Romance Tips to survive and thrive through Valentine's Day 2009.  Yeah and without breaking the bank!

Because if you are like me, you didn't receive a $17,000.00 stimulus check from the US Government to bail out your auto industry business or to buy your house at an overinflated price.

So, what I'm saying is, your purchasing Valentine's Day presents this year, you're on your own. 

Me too.

I'll be footing my own bill.

So today I want to cover the topic of CHOCOLATES.

Giving Chocolates is in the formal socially acceptable gifts which a single man may give to a single woman.  I'm talking formal manners, Emily Post etc.  So some women, because of the long-standing tradition of men giving chocolates to esteem a lady fair, still receive the present as an accolades.  Her Dad may have given them to her mom, so even though she doesn't want the calories, in her heart of hearts, she is still tenderly touched by the gift.

So, let me help you out here.

5 lbs boxes of Nut & Chews from See's were a GREAT business gift at Christmas time, but not at Valentine's Day.

Most modern women are not yearning for chocolate.

We are all on diets like Atkins and Southbeach Diet.

However, so what that means is, we would never go purchase chocolate ourselves.

We might even not directly want you to purchase them for us.

However, we will still enjoy the guilty pleasure of receiving them.

So, purchase the See's small Valentine's Day heart box.  or Russell Stover SMALL boxes of chocolates.

That way, there is the gesture.  You're playing the old-fashioned note - tender, a gentleman (if what you just wanted was NSA, skip this and just give her a box of rainbow condoms and pray she feels the same way you do), interested in HER.  she still gets the chocolate which she still really enjoys.  Without 3/4 of the calorie guilt.

Again, it is Wednesday going on Thursday.

GO NOW.

Go to See's and do this on your lunch hour.

Go to Walgreen's or Wal*Mart to purchase the Russell Stover's boxes.

The point is, do NOT wait until the last minute. Or it WILL all be picked over.

Me?  I love the Nuts and Chews, milk chocolate, almonds thingies with caramel. 

And Pink Roses.

In case you were wondering what to give me!

All the best and Happy Dating!

April Braswell
Online Dating Coach and Dating Expert