About The Book
Belly of The Buddha By Tyler Woods Ph.D.
Learning to walk in peace
Welcome to Wisdom From The Belly of the Buddha. Walking in Peace. This is a book filled with short essays offering lessons and gentle pearls of wisdom to help you walk in peace. As a psychotherapist, I fully understand that life can be challenging to walk in peace. There is so much going on, and many people have no idea how tumultuous life can be or how to gently unravel our daily experiences.
These short wisdoms cover topics such as letting go, dealing with dysfunctional families, coping with depression, anger, grief, and many other issues that concern us. This book can help us navigate everyday life. It can be used as a daily read to begin or end your day, or just to sit and enjoy. I made it simple so the reader can just open a page and go to that topic. It is my hope that one of the wisdoms will help you discover how to walk in peace.
I want to share how I came up with this book and the idea of Wisdom From The Belly of The Buddha Walking In Peace. Curently the book is off shelf being revised and will be out by end of 2026. As a mental health provider, I spent decades working with people with extreme trauma and hardship. Much of my early training was in crisis intervention. I had to learn how to stay calm in a crisis, and how to help people find opportunity in crisis. I always told them to walk in peace when times were tough.
I have worked with people who lost their children to suicide and with people who suffered great depression and have been on the brink of taking their own lives. I have worked with people addicted to drugs and alcohol and people who just had no direction in life. My job is to offer them insight that lights their path. Their job is to use that light to walk toward peace. Sometimes it is difficult.
I had a stack of notes on my desk and little cards with sayings on them. My clients had been telling me since 2006 to put them all in a book and give a detailed meaning to them. My friends, clients, radio listeners and blog followers said I had to get these writings out. I had so many excuses not to do it. Well 20 years later, here it is. I realized that living in the belly of the Buddha and learning to walk in peace was what helped me get through the most trying times of my life and I share them with you all. Namaste
Tyler Woods PHD
