Scared Dog Energy

What My Homeless Father Taught Me About Love, Fear, and Survival

More Than A Memoir

Lived Experience

A raw look at what it feels like to grow up inside chaos and still find your way forward.

Trauma Science

Research woven into real stories so readers understand not just what happened, but why it mattered.

Path Toward Healing

Practical insight and compassion that help readers make sense of their own survival and what comes next.

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Scared Dog Energy is a raw, darkly funny memoir about family, homelessness, and what early instability does to the human nervous system. Using the metaphor of a stray dog who’s been hurt too many times, Elaine Guinn explores survival, loyalty, and the slow work of learning safety after fear was your first language.

Elaine Guinn
Writer • Educator • Storyteller
Author of Scared Dog Energy

Elaine L. Guinn writes like she’s handing you the flashlight in a dark room she’s already survived. An educator, advocate, and survivor of childhood homelessness, she blends raw storytelling with neuroscience and the ACEs framework to show how fear, memory, and resilience shape our lives.

Her debut, Scared Dog Energy: What My Homeless Dad Taught Me About Love, Fear, and Survival, is part memoir and part trauma field guide—unflinching in truth yet threaded with humor and hope.

When she’s not writing or teaching, Elaine is most at home outdoors—fly fishing or simply spending time with her partner Greg, her adult sons Brody and Jack, bonus daughter Trynity, and fur baby Jazzy. She balances her community work with time in nature, where she finds both rest and inspiration.