|| Paperback || Scared Dog Energy
Note: please note due to the books release on 12/12/25 the first batch of wholesale priced books will not arrived until late January. Regardless of website stating 7-10 days the books have will not be ordered until 12/20/25. My first batch of books will take 5 weeks to arrive from the printer.
Scared Dog Energy is a memoir about what happens to a family when stability disappears too early in life and never fully returns. Elaine Guinn grew up in working class Indianapolis where eviction, bar fights, sudden moves, and survival decisions shaped childhood long before she understood the word trauma. As an adult, she found herself navigating the fallout of loving a father who spent decades unhoused, unpredictable, and deeply loyal in ways that did not always keep him safe.
Told with sharp humor, unflinching honesty, and a clear grasp of the science behind early adversity, this memoir traces how chaos becomes a body’s first language and how long it takes to learn another one. Elaine weaves together memory and neurobiology to show how the brain stores fear, how the past echoes inside adult relationships, and what it means to grow up always bracing for the next blow, literal or emotional.
The title comes from a simple metaphor. Most people can recognize the haunted posture of a stray dog who has been kicked too many times. They immediately understand the need for patience, structure, gentleness, and a safe corner to land. Yet the same compassion rarely extends to humans with identical nervous system scars. Scared Dog Energy explores that gap, what makes empathy easy for animals and complicated for people.
At its heart, this memoir is about the architecture of fear and the quiet and stubborn possibilities of healing. It speaks to anyone who has ever loved someone difficult, stiffened when kindness showed up, or lived with a body that reacts faster than the present moment requires. It is a story about lineage, survival, loyalty, and the slow work of teaching yourself that safety is possible after instability has been your only teacher.
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Last updated: December 11, 2025
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