Held in Motion

About Held in Motion

Exploring understanding in motion. heldinmotion.substack.com (https://heldinmotion.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Held in Motion

Category

society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

13 Dec 2025

Latest episode

30 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

24 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Jul 2026

   Held in Motion; The Quiet Season

   Have you ever lost the experience of knowing? I have the intellectual understanding of what I do well, but the substance that fills that out, the experience of knowing? I’ve lost that.For me, the experience is embodied, the knowing is developed and nurtured in collaborative, generative conversations. They’re like a gym & garden, in one. A place where I can exercise my strengths in different ways. And a place where I (and others) witness being co-creators & participants in a living ecosystem; an ecosystem alive only for as long as the conversation lasts.However, over months and years, I’ve observed group dynamics have shifted into more and more verbal transactions and extractions by way of subtle and overt games of dominance. Speaking at one another, cornering, leveraging, asserting positionality over one another. I’ve wondered, is it me? Am I seeing more clearly than I once did? Are larger social patterns more accentuated, now? And then I wondered, surely there are still gym-gardens just waiting to be discovered? Maybe, all of the above? When I see the signals being dropped, redirected, & (frankly) obliterated, I don’t experience myself as part of the whole. Instead, I find myself wondering: ‘Am I really here?’ Not just in this conversation, but existentially?For years, podcasting has served a need that followed knowing my thinking abilities. A weaving of self-expression & thought. Not in comparison to anyone, but as my own. With the experience of knowing sucked out of my intellectual understanding of self, I feel unmoored. I need to step away for a time.I’m going to wander, contemplate, be — for a bit. When I find the experience of knowing again, I’ll be back.If you’ve been listening all along, thank you. If you decide to remain through this quiet season, thank you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heldinmotion.substack.com (https://heldinmotion.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   17 Jul 2026

   Colonizing of the Mind

   Through time, the colonizer mentality became metabolized, laundered, normalized. It's the operating system obscured by innumerable sanctified explanations. The operating system that shapes our governments, economic systems, education, relationships with land & the rest of nature, social & cultural patterns, one on one conversations, & internal patterns. How do we make it more legible, begin to decompile/deprogram it, & replace it with something different?Resources & Notes:Glass of dark liquid. (https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7Xf71WvmBO/?igsh=bzd4cGF6MzQydHJw)Latest on the Nolan Wells' case. (https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2026/07/16/gps-data-distress-call-add-details-in-nolan-wells-case/90941622007/)Tall grasses flowing in the wind. (https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnD-bCWBEha/?igsh=MXhjem84aGQyN29mZA==) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heldinmotion.substack.com (https://heldinmotion.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

3. 

   11 Jul 2026

   Hierarchy: The "drug" that kills us is somehow preferable...

   When hierarchy creates the conditions, the environments we're mired in, how do we reconcile choosing this shit vs the uncomfortable & temporary shit that is engaging with that memetic, that architecture? The bottleneck that leads to liberation? Resources & Notes:"The Illusion of God" (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaoOzuwpRQJ/?igsh=Z3AyZGd5dTMwMDZm) (This is Justin's video discussing knowledge & the tower, I mentioned. It is not about God.)Marshmallows! (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022096519303662)Serviceberry (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208840291-the-serviceberry) by Robin Wall Kimmerer This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit heldinmotion.substack.com (https://heldinmotion.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

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