Dismiss That Which Insults Your Soul: How To Maintain A Living Heart In The tRump Era

Wendy Tremayne
6 min readMar 21, 2018

We must take seriously that the death of the human heart is a sign of the time we live in. There are only two ways to respond to brutality, malice, life on the line, and violence: one can keep the heart open and by doing so feel the world and the horrors of this day, or one can shut down and feel nothing, go numb. The cult of Donald Trump reveals that many among us have chosen the later.

However fascinating our bodies may be, on a fundamental level they are containers for something more…

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Wendy Tremayne

Author, The Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living (Storey 2023); Co-Producer and Co-Host, The Way of The Innernaut (podcast)