By Dr Brittany Tasesa

Mental Health Doctor | Ancestral Wisdom Navigator

heartbreak


  • Embracing Loneliness.

    Embracing Loneliness.

    It will be gradual, but you’ll stop thinking about how much better activities would be with someone else. You’ll start enjoying them even when it’s just you. You’ll stop delaying things till you have someone to share it with. I promise you, it gets better.


  • Dating Again After Bad Past Experiences

    Dating Again After Bad Past Experiences

    Some of my own reassurance extends from the knowledge that the person I am now would have never given men I had dated in the past an opportunity.


  • Paying Homage to this Past Season

    So for this new season; I look forward to having a heart that is more open to love, that is no longer terrified at the thought of a relationship, a heart that looks forward to meeting someone who aligns with them on all levels, that is continually learning and growing, a heart which knows it…


  • Working Out How to Live For Myself – Part Two

    “Living for yourself; fully and wholeheartedly, is a lifelong process. It is a choice you have to actively make every single day”


  • A Letter to Myself

    I have 206 entires in my Notes app under the folder labelled “blog”. They are quick jottings over the course of two years when I first shot the bullet and started blogging – an external, physical space to pour the multitudes of thoughts and musings – imperative for an over-thinker like myself. A few have…


  • Working Through Heartbreak

    I was a product of what young children were exposed to – princesses aren’t princesses without a prince, girls can’t function without boys, women need men to feel fulfilled and complete themselves.


  • The Bad Parts of Heartbreak

    So I’ve got this pit in my stomach. It won’t go away. But slowly, every so slowly, I think it’s getting a bit easier to breath.


  • Pandemics, lockdowns, breakdowns and break-ups

    I’m all for holding space for others to be vulnerable and encouraging this, yet I realised I rarely let my guard down myself.


  • My Not Pregnancy – Part 9

    Confirmed miscarriage at 12+6 weeks.


  • My Not Pregnancy – Part 8

    My biggest hurdle during this time has been telling my Samoan grandfather. The history I have to compare it with is his reaction when my mum told him she was pregnant at the age of 21 and he proceeded to not speak with her for the entirety of the pregnancy.