Tyler Woods PhD Holistic Mental Health

Join Tyler Woods as she discusses what your passion is. She suggests using your heart compass to discover your passion. After all, the heart sends more information to the brain than the brain sends to the heart, and that is a powerful tool for finding your passion. She also believes everything we need, including passion, is right in front of our face. Tune in.

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about when we are angry or upset, we should not blame anyone rather use it as an opportunity to look within our own selves and see why we are angry rather than being a victim and feeling angry and hirt. Blame no one and look within.

Join Tyler Woods, Ph.D., as she talks about how thoughts are powerful and how we are a product of our thoughts. She will talk about how it is important to start paying attention to your thoughts because many of us have automatic negative thoughts. She will talk about how mindfulness is helpful when challenging these automatic negative thoughts. It involves being aware of and accepting our thoughts and feelings in the present moment.

Listening to Tyler Woods today, and she helps you try to understand gaslighting. First, let’s give social media a big cheer for confusing people with what gaslighting is. On social media, anyone who wronged you or anyone whom you are mad at is a gaslighter. That is far from the truth. Gaslighting is where someone manipulates you and your conversations so much you question your own sanity, reality, and judgments. It is an abuse tactic where the person questions facts over and over till you feel confused. They undermine your skills and truths, and they manipulate your reality until you agree with them. The primary objective is power and control. Let's learn more about it in today's show.

Join Tyler Woods Today and she talks about how we have learned so much about social media and the effects it has on mental health. She has studied social media since its creation, and she fully understands and shares how social media can create mental health issues, it also leads to poor body image, increases cyberbullying, comparing ourselves to others, and having it harm our self-esteem, opens the door to addiction, and can lead to isolation because people spend more time on social media and less time in personal interactions with others. There are positive things to social media as well so give the show a listen.

Join Tyler Woods PhD as she talks about when someone holds a grudge or resentment, it has nothing to do with you; it is just about people holding on so tightly it affects the very core of their lives. Tyler believes that it is important that you recognize what resentments and or grudges are all about and that they serve as a protective mechanism they use in order to protect themselves from future hurt. These people who are judging you, resenting you, holding their grudge towards you are stuck. They have a difficult time living in the now, the present. Learn more with this week's podcast.

Join Tyler Woods, PhD as she talks about how taking responsibility empowers us as this wonderful opportunity gives us the power to learn and be a better person. It helps us become more self-aware, and it can really help our relationships with those around us because it helps us communicate better. Most importantly, taking responsibility and being accountable offers us all a chance to learn and make changes to improve our behavior

Join Tyler Woods PhD as she talks about the latest buzz word toxic. She talks how it is an overused buzzword, and it belittles what it is like to just be a human being and if someone’s opinion or attitude doesn’t fit into what we personally feel is acceptable or doable, they are labeled toxic. using the word toxic is more like a defense mechanism against anything that triggers, angers, or something that people disagree with. Find out more in this week's show.

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about the emotional immune system and how it is the foundation of emotional resilience. Today Dr. Woods talks about how to build and improve your emotional immune system.

Today Tyler Woods talks about parents that enable their grown child. Enabling parents basically removes that person from having to take responsibility for their behavior and the parent will always fix, solve, or make the consequences go away. Today Tyler talks about how it effects adult children by not allowing them to grow and what parents can do to gain control over their lives and teach their children to grow.

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about suicide and how mainstream religion sees it as a sin while spirituality will view it as a depleted emotional immune system. Suicide is not a sin as religion states, it is a symptom of an emotional problem be it depression, bi-polar, addictions and the many disorders the brain has and that is not a sin rather an illness just like cancer, stroke or heart attack. We must stop judging mental health issues as sin!

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about how patience should not be a virtue rather a skill. She beleive the problem is, we live in a time where being a virtue can mean so many different things to different people that we lost what means good. She says skip the word virtue and say patience should be a habit that we create. Maybe it can be a skill that becomes a habit!

Tyler Woods continues her conversation about anger by talking about letting go of anger. She share how anger starts in the mind but takes over the entire body, mind, body and spirit. Today she will talk about how anger harms the self and ways to release that anger and begin to feel peace.

Tyler Woods PhD believes that it is vital to learn how to cope with your own feelings when you are approached by an angry person. You should try to understand their feelings and respond with kindness over anger.

If you are an angry person there is help. You can see a therapist, attend anger management classes, seek a spiritual way to understand your feelings behind anger, think about peer support, where people use their experiences to help others. There are books to help manage anger, my favorite is the Cow In the Parking Lot.

Tyler talks today about a friend of hers that she has know for 28 years and how she is watching her die and discovering meaning to life. A meaningful life is important because it gives us a purpose and something to live for. She talks about how important it is to devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about fears that become so intense that it interferes with your daily functioning or well-being and it can be classified as a specific phobia, which is a type of anxiety disorder. Fear becomes a phobia when the anticipation, or anxiety, as well as the mental and physical response is so great that is it debilitating and interferes with everyday life. She talks about fears and ways to overcome them.

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about how in our society derive our self-worth from what we do for a living. We put people in little boxes based on what they do for a living. People always ask us, "what do you do for a living." A She finds this question interesting to navigate because she believes that our authentic self is simply a collection of choices and decisions not just our jobs. Join her today....

Tyler Woods asks the question how do we deal with a person that is so emotionally immaturity? First and foremost, do not let them change your history. They are always changing their story, so they feel safe, or so they are the hero's and everyone else is the villain. She feels it is vital to also set boundaries and do not let them wreak havoc on your life. She believes you should take the time to learn the lessons they can teach because they certainly can teach you patience, tolerance and how to walk a truthful path.

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about understanding the pathological liar. This type of lying may be a sign of an underlying mental health condition. These people lie so much they don’t even know that they are doing it and do not know the difference between fact and fiction. She give tips as to how to deal with a pathological liar and feel good about you.

Join Tyler Woods PhD as she talks about think how a big part of our development is to recognize our own decisions.  We measure ourselves and consciously choose people for ourselves not because someone “warned” you. She believes we judge and when we need to consider that people’s opinions come from their own experiences, their own judgements, their own disliking. If we listen to their “personal warnings” we become puppets on a string. Go ahead, move ahead and be friendly with a person they “warned” you about.  

Welcome and join Dr Tyler Woods as she talks about American being a death-denying culture. Tyler says we must stop avoiding talking about death. It is quite common in our culture to avoid openly talking about mortality, which harms people in so many ways and it leaves many unprepared in some of their most difficult life transitions. There is a deep-seated discomfort with death. Join her to find out more.

Join Tyler Woods PhD as she talks about people with chronic pain. They often feel exhausted and feel judged or neglected by family, friends and medical professionals. They never want to upset someone but because they are in pain they live on pain time, which is all the time! They are exhausted from trying so many things that don’t work. Pain creates conditions, like anxiety, depression, stress, substance abuse of some sort, mood swings and more. Join Tyler Today as she talks about Chronic pain.

Join Tyler Woods PhD today as she talks about powerless and powerful. She understands that life is going to throw us curve balls and it will be easy to feel powerless. Did you know that feeling powerless is not an emotion like fear, hurt, anger, sadness, or joy? Powerlessness is a decision. No matter how powerless we feel, we have to learn and understand that that we never lose our right and ability to choose our responses. Just because you feel powerless or helpless doesn’t mean you are. In fact, it can be the steppingstone to feel powerful! Join her today to talk about powerless to powerful.

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about greeting your authentic self. Recently a friend told her she did not like the real Tyler and basically preferred the sugar coated version of people where they people please because being authentic is very upsetting to people who need you to be people pleasers rather than the real you. Join Tyler as she shares the value of showing up and expressing yourself and being authentic and greeting the “real you” and owning the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are and not people pleasing.

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about grief and how it is not a Prozac deviancy and there are no medications that make this natural occurrence go away. In fact grief is not even a destination, it is simply a journey that at some point we will all experience because there is no escaping grief. Grief is simple yet complicated. In its simplest form, it is an involuntary reaction to loss.

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about how not everyone is going to like us. !  Whatever is happening with someone’s else’s opinion of you has nothing to do with you, with who you are or what you have said or done. You as a person with all your qualities and flaws don't factor at all in whatever is going on with the other person. We all have a purpose, a reason we are here on this planet and that is what it is about. We are not here to be liked by everyone.

Join Tyler Woods Ph.D. today as she talks about how research has found that people form stronger bonds when they are able to talk about their dislike towards others. Disliking someone forms stronger bonds and gives us a connection. We need to remember that a connection based on a negative emotion is bound to have a negative outcome down the road. She talks about several things you can do to avoid the negativity trap and how to pay attention to your own emotions and dislike of self rather than getting other people to dislike the same people you do.

Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about how holding a grudge allows you to harbor anger, bitterness, resentment, and other negative feelings long after someone has done something to hurt you. She talks about how when you chose to hold onto hurt, pain and grudges, there will not be much left to you to hold onto because grudges are heavy. You are holding so tight your hands are not free to hold onto more precious things. Join her today and learn a few ways you can let go of grudges and walk a happier healthier life.

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about how patience is power. It is strong and some people have to learn and discover it because they were never taught it.  Patience grows and it grows in the rocky terrain. The rockier it gets the more opportunity patience give you to practice it. Tyler says she heard somewhere patience is the soulmate of compassion and much like compassion we can never learn patience until we are patient with our own self. So practice it on you first! 

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about the lessons we learn from our mistakes, our choices, and our lifestyle. The lesson that teaches us that life is not a checklist rather a practice. We are all here to learn the lessons life offers us. Life lessons offer us these wonderful little nuggets of knowledge and wisdom. If we learn life lessons, we begin to make choices and decisions and get the outcome we wanted instead of the one we didn't. It's called  life's compost, we learn the lesson, we compost it and turn it into fresh growth and positive experience. Join her today as she talks about how to not avoid learning life's lessons.

Join Tyler Woods as she talks about how spirituality, not religion, rather spirituality can help with mental health and wellbeing. Spirituality can help us feel more grounded, feel better about ourselves, which reduces anxiety and depression.  It is about connecting the mind, the body and the spirit for a more holistic approach to mental health. 

Join Dr. Tyler Woods today as she talks about how she views depression and anxiety as three pillars. She believes that we forget that the mind, body and spirit do not allow us to stand alone with depression and anxiety. It has us stand on three very solid pillars. The first pillar is the thought process which is the product of our mind. The second pillar is the physical aspect which is about our health and the existence which is our body and finally the spiritual pillar which is our life force. It is with these three forces that we can conquer depression and anxiety. Join her today

Bariatric surgery is an effective tool for long-term weight loss in patients with obesity; however, There seems to be a huge taboo with the medical profession with weight loss surgery and mental health. It's important for all patients to receive counseling before and after weight-loss surgery and afterward to set realistic expectations and learn to navigate the very drastic changes that occur. Join Dr. Tyler Woods as she talks about the lack of mental health with the ever growing industry of surgical weight loss. 

Every few years a new psychological term enters popular consciousness and is misused and misunderstood. This year’s term is “Narcissist.” It now seems that “Narcissist” is now a catch-all for anyone who’s wronged us. The term has been misused and overused so flagrantly that it’s now all but meaningless when it comes to labeling truly destructive tendencies. Join Dr Tyler Woods as she talks one of the biggest problem with becoming obsessed with the label “narcissist”.  It distracts us from the real truth. People who have emotional issues are often the ones slinging narcissist around. If they make others look bad they can look good. 

  Join Tyler Woods Ph.D. as she talks about dysfunctional families.  She explains how a family is dysfunctional if they regularly experience conflict, misbehavior, or abuse in a way that creates harm. The impacts of growing up in a dysfunctional family can be long-lasting. However, it doesn't have to determine your destiny and you can learn to heal. Join Dr. Woods as she talks about ways to heal from dysfunctional family and ways to empower yourself.  She talks about using dysfunctional family to gain strength and become a better person for it.

  Join Dr Tyler Woods as she talks about narcissists. She is very active in recovery with narcissistic people. She believes narcissists aren’t looking for friends or family rather they’re looking for obedient admirers. She explains that narcissists crave admiration and attention like a junkie crave their drug. Attention is their drug of choice. Narcissists need constant food for their ego, so they surround themselves with people who are willing to cater to their obsessive craving for affirmation. They become impatient or angry when they don't receive special treatment. Join Tyler as she talks about ways you can better cope with the narcissist and how you can better understand and protect yourself from them.

Join Dr Tyler Woods as she talks about a real new issues called Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). It is an anxiety over the idea that other people might be having fulfilling experiences without you.  FOMO often originates in unhappiness and low self-esteem, anxiety disorder and higher levels of fear of missing out. The problem with FOMO is the individuals it impacts spend their time looking for others to give them happiness and joy rather than looking inward to get it. Dr. Woods shares her recent experience with it and how it helped introduce her to this new problem in today's world. 

Should people in recovery from alcohol or drugs use medical marijuana? For people in recovery, there is a big difference between needs vs. wants. For a person in a normal healthy state, there is no need to take a substance with mind-altering components… that would be considered a “want.” However, for people in recovery who have health issues, surgeries and even life threatening diseases, the use of cannabis becomes a big “need.” Join Tyler Woods today as she talks about medical marijuana compared with recreational marijuana, medical cannabis has higher levels of CBD and lower levels of THC, the ingredient in cannabis that produces euphoric effects. Learn why medical marijuana does not affect your sobriety.