Finding Resilience Facing A Second Wave Of Coronavirus | Former Buddhist Nun Martine Batchelor

Storyteller with Lisa Golden

As coronavirus numbers rise steadily in the UK and across Europe, many of us are feeling a heavy weight in our stomachs as we face possible further lockdowns as we approach winter.

Six months into a global pandemic, how do we cope with what we have already faced, and find the energy and resilience to keep going?

It’s all stories. Stories we tell ourselves about how life was, and how life should be. But there’s also a story here about where we are right now. How tough and resilient we have been, in the face of global pandemic. And that is what I want to explore today. On this slightly different episode of Storyteller.

More than the story of the pandemic, more than a story of psychology, more than a story of poetry or politics, I wanted to take a moment to look at the story that we tell ourselves, and how we can use these internal thoughts to make this road ahead bearable.

So, I got in touch with Martine Batchelor. Martine was a Buddhist nun in Korea for ten years, has written multiple books on meditation and mindfulness. She lives in France with her husband Stephen Batchelor, who also writes books and teaches secular approaches to mindfulness.

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