Bucovery

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about calmness being a superpower. The foundation for calmness is about the four immeasurable which are emphasized in Buddhist teachings of loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and serenity. These four attitudes can help people overcome the things that upset them and disrupt balance. It helps create a gentle switch in perspective that makes it easier to get through...

Join Tyler Woods for this show as she talks about something that upsets people and that is holding onto their story of trauma. Tyler talks about how people hold on to their pain for so long that they would feel lost without the pain and suffering. Afterall, they would have no story to tell and that has become their identity. Buddhism talks about pain and suffering caused by attachment and yes ther...

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about how people hold onto things until they lose everything. They have not learned  how fear of emotional pain, loss, hurt, and not getting their way prevents them from fully living in the present. They are constantly living in the past and holding onto to hurts almost like a currency. The Buddha taught people about the power of changing their mental processes i...

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about how in our life, it sometimes takes a negative event to make a positive change. We must keep in mind when someone tried to create suffering, it is because they are suffering deeply within and their suffering is simply spilling over. We have to remember that greatest of all lessons are often delivered through others. Tyler says that a Buddhist teacher reminded he...

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about why Buddhist psychology works so well.  Buddhist Psychology differs from many Western psychologies as it truly concerns itself with human potential rather than human pathology. When you experience problems with living, it doesn’t find you in need of fixing. Instead, Buddhist Psychotherapy views all suffering as an opportunity for growth and change. Tu...

Join Dr. Tyler Woods today as she talks about one of the biggest things that get in our way is ego. Sadly people think ego is a bad thing. Actually ego is not bad, in fact we need it! Ego helps us strive, helps build better self-esteem and makes us feel good about our decisions. Here is the problem with ego. It gets in our way, it causes negative behaviors and we get attached to it. Join Tyler tod...

Tyler Woods likes to walk in peace and remind people daily to walk in peace. She sends peace out daily but what does walk in peace really mean? Today Tyler talks about how walking in peace is about inner peace. Finding our peace. She talks about how peace is calmness despite the potential presence of stressors. She shares how peace is learning how to tame the mind and finding inner peace.

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about how suppressing emotions can cause more damage than you can imagine to the mind, body and spirit. It is not easy work to deal with thee emotions however, this is where Buddhism’s critical insight and resembles that of Western psychotherapy. His aim was to identify, explain and end human suffering. This is very similar to what therapists do today. Psychotherapy a...

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about how she got into Buddhism and why it was important for her to utilize it in her practice as a psychotherapist and life coach. Tyler says she became aware that Buddhism was the most psychological belief systems and the two work hand in hand. She shares how Buddha believed that the mind is the most dominant and Buddhism provides tools helping to alleviate ps...

Many adults suffer because they had an emotional absent parent. Whether that parent was mentally ill, or was challenged, the child grown into the adult suffer because of the lack of emotional love, support, compassion and understanding they did not receive. Join Tyler Woods PhD and she talks about a Buddhist approach to ending the suffering of having an emotional absent parent. Mindfulness, medita...

Tyler said she get's asked often how did she get into Buddhism. Today she tells the story of being in a religion that was like a dogmatic slavery and how she felt worthless as a woman in that religion and she turned to drinking and drugging. She got sober in AA but discovered it was not teaching her what she knew, that she was suffering and she was attached to drugs and alcohol and by stopping the...

Join Tyler Woods PhD as she talks about powerful emotions like dealing with life and death and the 4 Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Suffering is inevitable in life; so why do we run from it so much? Why do we want to rush and extinguish the flames of emotions of despair and fear before they fully get ignited, before we can fully learn?  When we face any kind of difficulty, we should try...

We all make mistakes; it is part of being human. Join Tyler Woods as she talks about how mistakes have a great deal to teach us and learning the power of letting go of the mistake once the lesson is learned. Mindfulness is an invaluable tool for helping us to let go of the mistake, learn the lesson and move on with no attachments. Mistakes are a part of life and we are stronger than our mistakes.

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about how a strong, resilient mind, can help us better manage our thoughts, emotions, and energy when we’re faced with stress or challenging situations. And ultimately, we gain the ability to remain cool, calm, and collected no matter what we’re up against.  She refers to the story of the buddha which is one of the most powerful examples of resilience and h...

Today Tyler Woods talks about silence and how nonstop noise and talking is about something and silence is about nothing and nothing can be far more important than something. The use of silence has a purpose. It’s to create the right conditions to be with ourselves and examine our internal self. Silence is vital for humans to exist peacefully. Silence encourages a strong spiritual development and c...

Join Tyler Woods PhD ash she talks about how Buddhism teaches us all to have a strong conviction in human potential. Buddhism says that we are people that have a wonderful ability to take responsibility for what we say, think and do. It teaches us all to make our lives of expressions of wisdom and compassion. People who do not take responsibility tens to make their lives of selfishness, fear, and...

Join Dr. Tyler Woods today and she talks about how the Buddha said that only forgiveness will make our soul peaceful. Forgiveness is strong because it knows how to recognize sufferings of the past and understands the pain, therefor there is a powerful strength to forgiveness. It stands in front of you and asks you to stand bravely in front of your pain you and asks you to forgive and let go. The B...

Join Tyler Woods PhD as she talks about how in Buddhism there are teaching for mindful speech that focus on refraining from causing harm. In Buddhism is we try very hard to refraining from unkind speech and gossiping. We see gossiping as a form of dishonesty. Even listening to gossip is a form of dishonesty. Our goal is to communicate mindfully which can actually help others and ourselves suffer l...

So many people are in great emotional pain in our country as of late. Between the devastating school shootings, price gouging, the war, grief and sorrow, and past unhealed wounds, emotional pain is on the rise. Join Tyler Woods and she talks about Buddhism and emotional pain and how to get through it. We are stronger than we give ourselves credit for. It’s amazing that we have the power to handle...

"Don’t worry about what people say behind your back. They are the people who are finding faults in your life instead of fixing their own." Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about how the Buddha taught that we can only trust what is gained through direct experience – every other kind of experience, such as what someone talks about behind our backs is subject to falsehood. She also shares about th...

Join Tyler Woods as she celebrate 32 years of sobriety of alcohol on St Patrick's day. She talks about Buddhism and sobriety and how it felt better for her and eventually evolved to knowing that she had an attachment to alcohol, and attachments made her suffer and to end her suffering she had to give up her attachments to cocaine and alcohol. She used the 4 Nobel Truths which are the truth of suff...

There was a woman on social media using the Ukraine war to  create division and hate in my own country. They were dividing using hate. I felt my anger go up and I had to stop, breathe and send compassion to this poor soul who was using social media to promote hate of US government. I meditated for peace for this poor woman, and I felt my anger dissipate as I sent her more and more compassion...

When Tyler Woods PhD. first started Bucovery, people were confused what it meant. Basically it is Buddhist psychology. Join her today as she talks a little about what Buddhist psychology is and why it is so important to end suffering. Today she talks about the Three Universal Truths, the 4 Nobel Truths and the 8 Fold Path. All three of these are critical for healing our suffering and learning to t...

Join Tyler Woods PhD as she talks about communication and the Eight fold path and the right speech with effective communication. She talks about how the Buddha once said that words are only justified when they aim to keep the peace between people. She explains what the Buddha meant by that is every word we speak should be thought of as creating a positive way in communicating, even when we are hur...

Join Tyler Woods as she discusses the Buddhist parable The Second Arrow. The second arrow represents our reaction to a negative event such as  a death, sickness, break-up, a loss of job, a car accident, break up, betrayal or a crisis of some sort. The second arrow can make a negative event much worse by the way we react. Sometimes when things happen, we can manage to get through it simply by...