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Grounded: Practical Tools to Understand, Regulate, and Reduce Anxiety
Practical Tools to Understand, Regulate, and Reduce AnxietyAnxiety is not a personal failure. It is a nervous system response.
In Grounded, Lori Caputo-Hartford offers a calm, practical guide for people who are tired of fighting anxiety and ready to learn how to move through it instead. This book does not promise instant relief or positive thinking. It teaches real, evidence-informed skills to help you understand what anxiety is, why it persists, and how to reduce its impact over time.
Grounded is built around a simple you cannot think your way out of a dysregulated nervous system; you must regulate your way through it.
Inside this book, you will learn how
Understand anxiety as a biological survival response, not a flaw
Calm the nervous system using body-based grounding and regulation
Work with anxious thoughts without fighting or suppressing them
Sit with discomfort safely without escalating fear
Reduce panic, health anxiety, and fear of physical sensations
Re-engage with life even when anxiety is present
Build long-term stability through consistent, compassionate practices
Written in clear, non-clinical language, Grounded is trauma-informed, practical, and deeply compassionate. Each chapter includes grounded practices you can use immediately, whether anxiety shows up as constant worry, panic attacks, sensory fear, or exhaustion from being “on edge.”
This book is ideal
Adults and young adults living with anxiety or panic
Readers who feel overwhelmed by traditional self-help approaches
Those seeking nervous-system-based tools rather than quick fixes
Anyone looking for steady, realistic support—not promises of perfection
Grounded does not ask you to eliminate anxiety to live well. It teaches you how to build capacity, trust your body again, and move forward one steady step at a time.
You are not broken.
Your nervous system is learning.
And healing does not need to be rushed.
In Grounded, Lori Caputo-Hartford offers a calm, practical guide for people who are tired of fighting anxiety and ready to learn how to move through it instead. This book does not promise instant relief or positive thinking. It teaches real, evidence-informed skills to help you understand what anxiety is, why it persists, and how to reduce its impact over time.
Grounded is built around a simple you cannot think your way out of a dysregulated nervous system; you must regulate your way through it.
Inside this book, you will learn how
Understand anxiety as a biological survival response, not a flaw
Calm the nervous system using body-based grounding and regulation
Work with anxious thoughts without fighting or suppressing them
Sit with discomfort safely without escalating fear
Reduce panic, health anxiety, and fear of physical sensations
Re-engage with life even when anxiety is present
Build long-term stability through consistent, compassionate practices
Written in clear, non-clinical language, Grounded is trauma-informed, practical, and deeply compassionate. Each chapter includes grounded practices you can use immediately, whether anxiety shows up as constant worry, panic attacks, sensory fear, or exhaustion from being “on edge.”
This book is ideal
Adults and young adults living with anxiety or panic
Readers who feel overwhelmed by traditional self-help approaches
Those seeking nervous-system-based tools rather than quick fixes
Anyone looking for steady, realistic support—not promises of perfection
Grounded does not ask you to eliminate anxiety to live well. It teaches you how to build capacity, trust your body again, and move forward one steady step at a time.
You are not broken.
Your nervous system is learning.
And healing does not need to be rushed.
85 pages, Hardcover
Published January 12, 2026
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