The postapocalype as a mobilising discourse for climate action operates largely out of anger over experienced and anticipated injustices as well as paradoxical hope that fuses loss and grief with translocal solidarities. Through an in situ, mobile walking methodology, I examine the complexity of balancing grief and hope among white settler populations in Western Australia, how they navigate the affective insecurities in and around their homes, and how they make sense of their agency in changing more-than-human ‘Places of the Heart’. There is evidence for emotional complexities of solastalgia where pessimistic outlooks for the future are wrapped up in prefigurative visions of a better world. By holding the tension between paralysis and restoration, urban and rural residents explore relational co-existence and differential belonging in their homes and the landscapes around them that form the basis for more empathetic politics of everyday place making. Shared narratives across white privilege and disadvantage point towards the need to enfranchise a range of emotions as a vital aspect in collective engagements with ongoing, escalating crises, including climate distress.