Do you have an instructional resource for this, or could you enlighten me offline?
Sure. There are a number of free crypto wallets you can download online. You can send your coins to one of those once you download one.
To be even more secure you can buy a “cold storage” (ie offline) wallet like a Nano or Trezor. They’re about the size of a thumb drive and can hold a bunch of crypto on them. The way it works is you are given a series of random words. This is your code. You have to write these down and be sure to store them offline. You can then use free software you can download (in my case ledger live since I have a Ledger Nano). You use this to move your coins from an exchange to your cold storage wallet. What matters here is the code, not the actual physical device. As long as you have the code, if you lose your device or if its broken, stolen, etc you just need to go buy another and plug in your code, and you will have access to your coins. Without the code, you cannot get in. Ever. As in your coins are lost forever.
The advantage of a cold storage wallet is it cannot be hacked. No government like say, Canada’s could ever seize or freeze your coins like they did to the bank accounts of the truckers and people who donated to them. YOU control “the keys” to your coins. When you leave them on an exchange, the exchange controls “the keys” so they can get them....or the government can force them to hand over the keys to them.
Thus, “not your keys, not your coins”. To have ultimate absolute control, you need to store your coins offline in cold storage.