Lost Together Podcast with Marika Heinrichs

A podcast about responding to the political and ecological crises of our times through the lens of relationship.
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From climate crisis to childhood trauma, we are a culture focused on solutions. A fear of uncertainty in our relationships, work, and movements cuts us off from our wisest, most creative, and visionary potential. When our bodies struggle to stay with the unknown, our reflex is often to grasp for power and control. Lost Together asks: What would become possible if we responded to the political and ecological crises of our times through the lens of relationship rather than individual protection? What if we stopped trying to find solutions, and started trying to find each other? For over 20 years Marika has explored the intersection of embodiment and collective liberation as a writer, organizer, and somatics practitioner. In conversation with friends and collaborators, Marika explores the wisdom uncertainty has to offer us and shares grounded, practical tools for cultivating strong relationships with each other and our more-than-human kin in the midst of the great unknown. marikaheinrichs.substack.com

  1. Sep 1

    Kinship as Embodied Practice: A Dialogue on De-Assimilating from Whiteness

    “We need to be working at the root. If we are unconsciously being ruddered around by our ancestors and by the patterns that our people have picked up, then the deeper work isn’t gonna happen. And then cultural change isn’t gonna happen.” For our final conversation of the season, I talk with my dear friend and collaborator Stevie Joy Moss. Stevie is a Hakomi practitioner, ritualist, and doctoral student in decolonial depth psychology, and also the co-founder of Embodied Ancestral Inquiry. We speak about the different shapes of protection and disconnection that we see arise for white folks, how divesting from whiteness actually asks us to turn towards it rather than away, and the role that belonging and joy play in untangling ourselves from domination. The stories we tell about belonging shape how we live, organize, and imagine the future. If you’ve been searching for language around land, interdependence, and kinship as tools for collective liberation, then this conversation is for you. Stevie is a Hakomi mindful somatics practitioner, cultural ecologist, and land-based teacher whose work centers around building belonging with land and place while critically engaging with the problems of ongoing settler colonialism and climate crisis. Stevie is also a doctoral student at Pacifica Graduate University in the Depth Psychology with specialization in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-Psychologies program. They live at the southernmost tip of the Puget Sound in st̓əč̓as (Steh-Chass) in what is now called Olympia, Washington. When they are not working or studying, you can find them by the water singing to the the sea and the cedars. RESOURCES: weaverandrose.com embodiedancestralinquiry.com The Becoming Instagram Lost Together is produced by Marika Heinrichs and Becca Rich. Our music is by Cristoffer Moe Ditlevsen, Mixed by SC Dillon. Sound Engineering and Editing by Marika Heinrichs. Get full access to Feet in the Butter at marikaheinrichs.substack.com/subscribe

    Kinship as Embodied Practice: A Dialogue on De-Assimilating from Whiteness

  2. Aug 25 ·  Bonus

    [Encore] What does Land Back mean?

    We won’t be sharing a new glossary episode this week, but encourage you to listen to this one on Land Back if you haven’t already. We’ll be back next week with our final episode of the season! This week our glossary entry is on Land Back. Episode 2 of the podcast explores the relationship between cultural reconnection and solidarity activism. We reflect on our relationship with land as both settlers and descendants of land-based traditions that were nearly lost. If you haven’t listened yet to my conversation with Ben Reid-Howells on how reconnecting with his Scottish roots was ignited by solidarity with Indigenous Resurgence on Turtle Island, you can go back and find it in episode 2 Deep Roots: Showing up to Justice Work with Cultural Grounding. Links: Land Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper Rehearsals for Living On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Lands and Peoples Unsettling the Settler Within - Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada Ancestral Embodiment audio course Lost Together is produced by Marika Heinrichs and Becca Rich. Our music is by Cristoffer Moe Ditlevsen, Mixed by SC Dillon. Sound Engineering and Editing by Marika Heinrichs. Get full access to Feet in the Butter at marikaheinrichs.substack.com/subscribe

    [Encore] What does Land Back mean?

  3. Aug 18

    Trusting the Body’s Wisdom as Preparation for the End of the World

    “One of the main tenets we want to teach people in somatics is to trust the body. And to trust that our whole selves know things that might have been pruned out of us, that might have atrophied, that might have been suppressed.” This week I connect with Diné somatics practitioner Nazbah Tom for a conversation that travels from the body to the land to the end of the world and back. We talk about trusting what’s been conditioned out of us, building relationship with our more-than-human kin, how to prepare for political and climate catastrophe, and what it means to re-situate somatics inside of far older wisdom traditions. Nazbah Tom’s offer to community is a combination of their training as a drama therapist and subsequent training in somatics. They weave principles of practices from their lived experience with Diné community. They work with individuals, offer healing/skills building groups, supervise practitioners, teach somatic courses, and work with organizations. Nazbah is grateful to live as a guest on Anishinaabe lands near Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. They humbly offer their work in the spirit of Indigenous resurgence. Links: IG: somaticswithnazbah nazbahtom.com Bodies of Medicine Resources: Yellowhead Institute Kim Tallbear Coyote Institute Lost Together is produced by Marika Heinrichs and Becca Rich. Our music is by Cristoffer Moe Ditlevsen, Mixed by SC Dillon. Sound Engineering and Editing by Marika Heinrichs. Get full access to Feet in the Butter at marikaheinrichs.substack.com/subscribe

    Trusting the Body’s Wisdom as Preparation for the End of the World

  4. Aug 11 ·  Bonus

    [Encore] What does Transformative Justice mean?

    We won’t be sharing a new glossary episode this week, but encourage you to listen to this one on Transformative Justice if you haven’t already. We’ll be back next week with a new conversation to share! This week our glossary entry is on Transformative Justice. Episode 3 of the podcast dives into learning to do conflict more skillfully and how this relates to a vision of community beyond punishment and isolation. If you haven’t listened yet to my conversation with Brook Thorndycraft on growing our capacity for conflict and why it’s important for our communities, movements, and the planet — you can go back and find it in episode 3: Between Collapse and Emergence: Learning from Conflict in Turbulent Times. We are an ad-free and member supported podcast. You can join us on Substack and pledge a monthly donation that helps us make Lost Together possible and sustainable. You can also like and review us on #applepodcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. LINKS: https://transformharm.org/tj_resource/transformative-justice-a-brief-description/ https://transformharm.org/transformative-justice/ Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement The Wetiko Legal Principles: Cree and Anishinabek Responses to Violence and Victimization Lost Together is produced by Marika Heinrichs and Becca Rich. Our music is by Cristoffer Moe Ditlevsen, Mixed by SC Dillon. Sound Engineering and Editing by Marika Heinrichs. Get full access to Feet in the Butter at marikaheinrichs.substack.com/subscribe

    [Encore] What does Transformative Justice mean?

  5. Aug 4

    The Healing That’s Only Possible When We Come Together

    “Trauma healing is possible inside of violent conditions but we need to be doing it as a collective. What makes it work is that we are healing as a group together.” This week I sit down with writer, somatics teacher, and fellow ex-therapist Kai Cheng Thom for a conversation about the possibilities that emerge when we stop trying to heal alone. We talk about why we both walked away from traditional therapy, what the body knows that clinical models often miss, why shame can only mend in relationship, and how groups can metabolize rupture and come out more connected than ever. RESOURCES: ariseembodiment.org kaichengthom.com IG:@kaichengthom Little Deaths Salon Reconnecting with Land, Ancestors, and Liberation Through the Body: A Free Webinar for White Therapists, Healers, and Practitioners Donate to Namaygoosisagagun First Nation wildfire relief fund Lost Together is produced by Marika Heinrichs and Becca Rich. Our music is by Cristoffer Moe Ditlevsen, Mixed by SC Dillon. Sound Engineering and Editing by Marika Heinrichs. Get full access to Feet in the Butter at marikaheinrichs.substack.com/subscribe

    The Healing That’s Only Possible When We Come Together

  6. Jul 28 ·  Bonus

    What does Healing Justice mean?

    This week our glossary entry is on Healing Justice. Episode 5 of the podcast touches on the intimacy of healing objectification through relationship — with land, ancestors, and each other. If you haven’t listened yet to my conversation with Susan Raffo you can go back and find it in episode 5: Be Here Now: Land, Lineage, and Healing from Within the Wound We are a member supported podcast. You can join us on Substack and pledge a monthly donation that helps us make Lost Together possible and sustainable and leave us a review on Apple podcasts, we appreciate all your support. RESOURCES: Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective Healing Justice Lineages Care Work Healing Justice at the US Social Forum: A report from Atlanta, Detroit & Beyond Remember, Repair, Reconnect: Extended Workshop with Susan Raffo Lost Together is produced by Marika Heinrichs and Becca Rich. Our music is by Cristoffer Moe Ditlevsen, Mixed by SC Dillon. Sound Engineering and Editing by Marika Heinrichs. Get full access to Feet in the Butter at marikaheinrichs.substack.com/subscribe

    What does Healing Justice mean?

  7. Jul 21

    Be Here Now: Land, Lineage, and Healing from Within the Wound

    “The oldest meaning of neighbour is ‘all our relations’ — that which is alive, which is next to each other.” How do we learn to practice relationality when we grew up inside a culture that taught us to treat each other as objects? This week I talk with writer, bodyworker, and longtime healing justice organizer Susan Raffo from Minnesota Makocé, in a season when Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) had occupied Minneapolis. This intimate conversation illuminates how our deepest wound often isn’t any single act of violence, but rather the habit of turning life itself into an object and inflicting that in myriad ways onto each other. We explore how we can reclaim relationality through centring care in our organizing work, by building coalitions across deep political difference, and as lineage bearers in honouring the sharing of knowledge intergenerationally. RESOURCES: susanraffo.com REP Cara Page Healing Histories Project Remember, Repair, Reconnect Retreat with Susan Raffo + hosted by Marika Lost Together is produced by Marika Heinrichs and Becca Rich. Our music is by Cristoffer Moe Ditlevsen, Mixed by SC Dillon. Sound Engineering and Editing by Marika Heinrichs. Get full access to Feet in the Butter at marikaheinrichs.substack.com/subscribe

    Be Here Now: Land, Lineage, and Healing from Within the Wound

  8. Jul 14 ·  Bonus

    What does Whiteness mean?

    This week our glossary entry is on Whiteness. Episode 4 of the podcast explores the terrain of building intimacy across difference, knowing ourselves and each other more deeply, and both the costs and gifts of living a life of radical self-honesty. If you haven’t listened yet to my conversation with Prentis Hemphill — you can go back and find it in episode 4: Being in Relationship Across Difference in Power, History, and Identity We are a member supported podcast. You can join us on Substack and pledge a monthly donation that helps us make Lost Together possible and sustainable. You can also leave us a review on Apple podcasts. RESOURCES: Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. 1903. White Racial Identity Development Model (Janet E. Helms, 1990) Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (bell hooks, 2004) Living in the Shadow of the Cross: Understanding and Resisting the Power and Privilege of Christian Hegemony (Paul Kivel, 2013) Michael Eric Dyson White Supremacy Culture Characteristics Ancestral Embodiment Audio Course Lost Together is produced by Marika Heinrichs and Becca Rich. Our music is by Cristoffer Moe Ditlevsen, Mixed by SC Dillon. Sound Engineering and Editing by Marika Heinrichs. Get full access to Feet in the Butter at marikaheinrichs.substack.com/subscribe

    What does Whiteness mean?
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From climate crisis to childhood trauma, we are a culture focused on solutions. A fear of uncertainty in our relationships, work, and movements cuts us off from our wisest, most creative, and visionary potential. When our bodies struggle to stay with the unknown, our reflex is often to grasp for power and control. Lost Together asks: What would become possible if we responded to the political and ecological crises of our times through the lens of relationship rather than individual protection? What if we stopped trying to find solutions, and started trying to find each other? For over 20 years Marika has explored the intersection of embodiment and collective liberation as a writer, organizer, and somatics practitioner. In conversation with friends and collaborators, Marika explores the wisdom uncertainty has to offer us and shares grounded, practical tools for cultivating strong relationships with each other and our more-than-human kin in the midst of the great unknown. marikaheinrichs.substack.com

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    A podcast about responding to the political and ecological crises of our times through the lens of relationship.
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Marika Heinrichs
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