dating emotions

essays exploring what emotions reveal through body, behaviour, and lived experience.

About Dating Emotions

Emotions are difficult to name and even harder to understand. They move through the body, shape behaviour, influence language, alter perception, and quietly affect the way people relate to themselves and others.

Dating Emotions explores emotional life through literary essays, observation, embodiment, and lived experience. Emotions are approached as encounters — something to sit with, listen to, resist, misunderstand, avoid, or meet head-on.

Some arrive gently. Others invade the room before they even speak.

Through story and reflection, the project examines how emotions manifest physically, how they shape human behaviour, and how meaning is often discovered long after the feeling itself has passed.

This is not a space for quick fixes, forced positivity, or turning every emotional experience into a lesson. Some emotions remain unresolved. Some only make sense years later.

Dating Emotions is an ongoing exploration of emotional life from the inside.