…some days, just stink. And I have a feeling they will for a long, long time.
Some Days Just Stink
Brenda Sieglitz
Brenda Lee Sieglitz is an author and public speaker whose topics focus on travel, grief, and nature. Widowed in 2008 at 24 years of age, Brenda is an advocate for sarcoma patients, the widowed community, and conservation through her volunteerism with the National Park Service, Lancaster County Conservancy, Pennsylvania Master Naturalist, Hospice of Lancaster County, Soaring Spirits International, Angiosarcoma Awareness and Highmark Caring Place.
Brenda won the 2009 Associated Content “Content of the Year” award, and in 2011 was named one of Wyndham Women’s “Women on their Way”. Most recently her love and loss memoir, Ebb from the Shoreline, won 1st Place Editor’s Choice in Nonfiction at the 2014 North American Book Awards. Sieglitz holds a degree in business and became a Pennsylvania Master Naturalist in 2015.
In her spare time, she adores playing with her two nieces, going on family adventures with her husband, stepdaughter and son-in-law, hiking, camping and is working to complete her bucket list dream of visiting all National Park units.
Sieglitz has been married to her best friend Dave since 2013 and continues to reside in Lancaster County with their two beagles Scotch and Fina.
Brenda,
You are right. I am praying for better days to come.
The only way it could hurt less would be if you and Kevin had loved each other less. Great sorrow can only come from great love, and you were both blessed to have known that kind of love.
Someone once told me that living through the immediate phases of grief is in itself an illness your body is undertaking. You are trying to heal and be strong, yes, but your body and soul are dealing with an illness, the illness of grief. Be kind to yourself as you go through the times when you are “aware of everything”. During these moments you won’t feel strong at all, and that is O.K.!