What Is The Grounded Way?

Get grounded. Tend four. Grow two.

Your tree, part by part

A tree grows strong when its roots, bark, leaves, and branches are tended, and so do you. Tend these four every day, and meaning and hope grow from that tending, ring by ring and season by season. Every part of your tree has a tree word and a plain word. You tend the first four each day. The last two grow from your tending, and your check-ins keep asking about them as the measure of your growth.

• Roots: Spirit. Stillness, gratitude, and what grounds you, in your own way.
• Bark: Mind. Your thoughts, feelings, and focus: calm, clear, and steady.
• Leaves: Body. Whole food, water, movement, rest, and a clear, healthy body.
• Branches: Relationships. The people you love, family, friends, and community, face to face.
• Trunk: Meaning. Meaning and purpose thicken ring by ring, year by year. You know why you get up in the morning, and even hard seasons carry purpose.
• Fruit: Hope. Hope comes in its season. You face tomorrow with trust, and you see things grow and get better.

Each of the four always has at least one practice, by Grounded’s plan or your own routine. Tending scales to you: a chair routine, a short walk, or stretching in bed all count. When storms come, a tree tended every day bends without breaking, because its roots hold.

Your tree is set by your age: Maple, Aspen, Pine, Birch, Oak, or Sequoia. Seasons open inside your Way when life calls for them: Living Sober, and When Life Changes for grief and hard seasons. The Grove lets families, faith communities, and groups grow together. Heartwood, for couples, and Willow, for the last season of life, are companion apps beside it.

One plan, built from your check-in.

A guided setup starts from the Growing Edges in your tree’s newest check-in, then walks you through each part of your plan, one screen at a time. Start Small offers a lighter first two weeks, and Your Week shows the whole plan before you save it.

Five tabs, one calm day.

The Grounded Way opens on Today. Five tabs along the bottom hold everything else, and each one is shown here just as it looks in the app. Your tree comes from your profile, so every tab is made for your age.

Tab 1

Today

Your whole day in order, with Right Now at the top: your growth plan practices, meals, workouts, Morning Quiet, your meditation, and your tree, each with a circle to tap when it is done. Your week opens from here too, with dinners, workouts, Sunday Together Prep, and one shopping list.

Tap the circle on one practice when you do it, and watch your day fill.

Tab 2

Check-in

How each part of your tree is growing: Strong, Steady, or a Growing Edge. Check In or take a Quick Check-in right here, with questions made for your tree, and watch this season and your rings grow.

Take a Quick Check-in, about two minutes.

Tab 3

Grow

Your Growth Plan, one plan for your practices, body, mind, spirit, and your table, with your week, this season, your tree’s own book, and your family.

Open your Growth Plan and choose one practice to begin with.

Tab 4

Learn

Short lessons and guides for when life changes, chosen for your tree, each one playing right here in a small window.

Play one lesson, about three minutes.

Tab 5

Library

One search box for everything: Grounded Recipes with Holidays and Gatherings, Grounded Fitness, Grounded Meditation, and every Grounded tool, on bright painted shelves made for your tree and your table.

Search one word, like sleep or calm, and see what is waiting.

Everything for the everyday, in one place.

Tending is the heart of The Grounded Way. It fills Today and Week in The Grounded Way app, right beside your tree in Grow.

Food for Your Goal

Choose one goal or several: Heart and Cholesterol, Steady Energy, A Healthy Weight, Strength, or Simply Eating Well. Tending builds your week from Grounded Recipes, every meal sized for your table, honors your food needs and allergies, and writes the shopping list. A calm kitchen voice reads every step aloud.

Movement for Every Level

A short start-up check, then the path that fits: Root, Rise, or Thrive, or the Gentle path. Strength, Cardio, Flow, Yoga, Balance, and Stretch, at home, with light weights, or in a full gym, in 20, 40, or 60 minutes, with a coach’s voice for every move.

Morning Quiet

A few unplugged minutes to begin the day: a gentle timer, a painted dawn, and one calm line at a time, with readings one tap away.

Labs and the LDL Path

Enter your own numbers and your own goal. Each lab shows its recommended range beside yours. On the LDL Path, each step shows its research-informed effect as a range, with its source, and you choose Do It or Pass. My Heart Risk keeps your doctor’s scores, with a PREVENT calculator to see your own estimate.

Family Nutrition

Track the food, never the body. A grown-up follows each child’s food groups, fruit and vegetables, protein, fiber, iron, calcium, water, and added sugar. Kids get a playful view with no numbers: eat a rainbow, move and play, sleep well. Teens track their own nutrients.

Your Tree, Right Beside It

Your check-in and growth plan live in Grow, and each practice you choose joins your day on Today, so inner growth and everyday health grow together.

Guided Meditations

Seven guided meditations, one for each day of the week, each on its own painted scene with a candle and a breathing glow. The quiet fits the minutes you choose.

Sunday Together Prep and My Menu

About 45 minutes together on Sunday, with a Cook and a Helper, sets up the week. Each dinner then comes together fresh. Add any recipe to My Menu, swap a meal, and the shopping list follows.

Holidays and Gatherings

17 sets for the big days, from Thanksgiving and Christmas to a birthday, a potluck, or a meal after a service: a menu, a shopping list, and a prep timeline in the days before.

Every recipe, built to thrive.

Every Grounded recipe starts from whole food on a Mediterranean base: vegetables, fruit, beans, whole grains, nuts, olive oil, fish, and poultry. Plant-based is a choice you add on top. Here is the full standard each recipe meets, and every recipe is open to browse in Grounded Recipes.

Root, Rise, Thrive, and Gentle.

Every path begins with a short start-up check. Then choose your level, your place (Home with your own body weight, Light Weights with a pair or two of dumbbells and bands, or a Full Gym), and 20, 40, or 60 minutes.

The 12-Week Program grows Strength and Cardio through three phases: Foundation in weeks 1 to 4, Build in weeks 5 to 8, and Peak in weeks 9 to 12. Then you can start again one level up. Flow, Yoga, Balance, and Stretch fill the other days. Every workout plays inside its own painting, with a figure that moves with the count, a tree that breathes with you, and Auto Flow, so the whole session runs with no taps.

If any start-up question gets a yes, check with your doctor or physical therapist first, then come back and bring their plan into Tending. My Plan from My Team keeps their exercises just as they wrote them, with reminders on your day.

Yours alone, and made to share with your doctor.