Otterly Anxious
How to Deal With Anxiety

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Quick and simple tools to help your body settle and calm your nervous system.
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Identifying Emotions
Emotions: Understanding & Identifying Them
Understanding our emotions can be challenging, but the Wheel of Emotions offers a valuable way to identify and articulate what we're experiencing.
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Body Focus
The Subtle Ways I Keep My Body Stuck in Survival Mode
Lately, I’ve been noticing how easy it is for me to slip back into survival mode, even when things are mostly fine. I can be doing all the right things and still feel like my body is quietly bracing for something.
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Cookbooks
Shame
When Kindness Turns Into Shame
Have you ever said something with the best of intentions, only to replay it later and wish you hadn’t said anything at all? That sinking feeling, the heat in your chest, the loop of “why did I do that?”, that’s shame. And it’s one of the most human experiences there is.
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Immediate Relief
Healing CPTSD outside of Therapy: Gentle, Real Ways to Rebuild Yourself
Can you heal Complex PTSD outside of therapy? Many trauma survivors do through somatic work, mindfulness, and self-compassion. Here’s what actually helps when you’re healing on your own, drawn from real community experiences and my own journey.
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Emotions: Understanding & Identifying Them
Identifying Emotions
Emotions: Understanding & Identifying Them

Understanding our emotions can be challenging, but the Wheel of Emotions offers a valuable way to identify and articulate what we're experiencing.

Shake it off, literally
Body Focus
Shake it off, literally

Embodied exercices are just fancy words to mean bringing movement to the body. Explore some of my recommendations, things that work for me, to reconnect to my body and be in the now instead of in my head.

DBT tools I use for Anxiety, Overthinking and Emotional Dysregulation
Emotional Balance
DBT tools I use for Anxiety, Overthinking and Emotional Dysregulation

DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) can sound complicated, but it is really just a set of tools that help you stay grounded. I share the ones I reach for when my emotions run high.

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Recent Articles
Immediate Relief
Schedule More Sessions with Your Therapist
Schedule More Sessions with Your Therapist
Asking for help—whether from a therapist or someone you trust—isn’t a setback but a powerful act of self-care. When things feel too heavy, reaching out can be the fastest way forward.
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Body & Release
Somatic Self-Care for Stress Relief
Somatic Self-Care for Stress Relief
Sometimes the best way to ease anxiety is to let your body be cared for. Here are simple self-care rituals, like osteopathy, massage, sauna, or a warm bath, that help me feel grounded and calm.
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Emotional Balance
Food, Supplements, and Emotional Balance
Food, Supplements, and Emotional Balance
What I eat and drink has a real impact on how I feel emotionally. In this post, I share the simple food choices and supplements that help me feel calmer and more balanced, without turning it into a strict or overwhelming set of rules.
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Cultivating Joy
Take up space & laugh and Play Like a Child
Take up space & laugh and Play Like a Child
Laughter and play aren’t just silly extras — they’re powerful ways to shift your mood, reduce stress, and reconnect with joy.
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Emotional Balance
Learning to Live in Sync With My Cycle
Learning to Live in Sync With My Cycle
Tracking my cycle has changed the way I understand my moods and energy shifts. Here I share how I plan around different phases of my cycle and why working with my body instead of against it has brought me more ease, balance, and self-compassion.
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Immediate Relief
A Ready-to-Go “Activity Kit”
A Ready-to-Go “Activity Kit”
Keeping a few go-to activities—like reading, sketching, or journaling—ready to grab helps reduce overwhelm and supports emotional balance when decision-making feels too hard.
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The Baby Was Fine. I Was Not.

The Baby Was Fine. I Was Not.

The baby was okay. So why, several hours later, was I sitting on a bench by the ocean crying like something terrible had happened?
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About Otterly Anxious

Hi! I'm Marine 🦦

A comprehensive toolbox of evidence-based techniques, articles, and resources to help navigate anxiety. Discover embodied movements, emotional balance tools, and more.
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This website is the result of my personal journey.
It's a "Tool Box" I turn to everyday.
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I suffer from Complex PTSD, and chronic anxiety is unfortunately part of the package. Over the years, I’ve searched for ways to feel safer in my body and more at peace in my mind.
What you’ll find here is a collection of tools that have helped me navigate emotional waves, ease physical tension, and reconnect with myself, especially in difficult moments.
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Everyone’s healing path is different and I hope this guide can offer a starting point, a bit of support, or a reminder that it’s okay to sometimes feel lost.

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Resources: Books, Podcasts & Therapists
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Book
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Here's a description: A beautifully illustrated story following four unlikely companions on a journey through life's hardest questions — kindness, courage, belonging, and what it means to love yourself. Short enough to read in one sitting, yet the kind of book you'll return to again and again.
Story:
Charlie Mackesy
The Boy Who Was Raised by a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook
Book
The Boy Who Was Raised by a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook
And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
Story:
Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz
The Body Keeps the Score
Book
The Body Keeps the Score
The concept of the body keeps the score is about Brain, mind and body in the healing of Trauma. It is NOT a hard read. It's an essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.
Story:
Bassel Van der Kolk
Dr Martha - anxiety, lying, how to fix childhood trauma, how to feel peace again, and the real reason anxiety levels are skyrocketing.
Podcast
Dr Martha - anxiety, lying, how to fix childhood trauma, how to feel peace again, and the real reason anxiety levels are skyrocketing.
The world is becoming increasingly stressed and anxious, according to Oprah's life coach the solution to coping with modern times involve changing your brain Dr Martha Beck is a Harvard-trained sociologist and founder of the ‘Wayfinder Life Coach Training’ platform. She is host of the podcast ‘The Gathering Room’ and bestselling author of books such as, ‘The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self’. In this conversation, Dr Martha and Steven discuss anxiety, lying, how to fix childhood trauma, how to feel peace again, and the real reason anxiety levels are skyrocketing.
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Diary of a CEO with Steven Barlett
What Happened to You?
Book
What Happened to You?
Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Story:
Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey
No Bad Parts
Book
No Bad Parts
Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Story:
Richard C. Schwartz