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How to Deal With Anxiety
Quick and simple tools to help your body settle and calm your nervous system.
Ease Anxiety Fast
When emotions run high and time is short, simple breathing and grounding techniques offer relief and help calm the nervous system in just a few minutes.
Body & Nervous System
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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Healing CPTSD
Sometimes setting a boundary doesn’t feel peaceful at all! It feels like heartbreak.
Joy & Play
Noticing small, everyday moments of wonder can shift your perspective and soften anxious thoughts. From stargazing to morning coffee, simple joys can become anchors of calm.
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Healing CPTSD
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.
Pregnancy & Anxiety
Pregnancy, when your body has never really felt safe
There is a version of pregnancy people know how to talk about. The one where your body becomes a home, and that idea is supposed to feel beautiful almost immediately.Maybe that is true for some people.But that has not really been my experience. Or at least not fully.
Ease Anxiety Fast
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.
Ease Anxiety Fast
Using Cold exposure to calm anxiety, fast!
Cold showers, ice on the wrists, or a cold foot bath can quickly interrupt anxiety by shocking the body, boosting focus, and breaking the cycle of overwhelming thoughts.
Body & Nervous System
Somatic shaking exercises for anxiety / TRE
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.
Emotional Regulation
Social Media, Notifications, and Anxiety
Constant pings and endless scrolling were quietly feeding my anxiety. In this post, I share the simple phone boundaries I set for myself, like deleting apps and silencing notifications, and how these changes gave me more peace of mind and presence in my everyday life.
About Otterly Anxious

Hi! I'm Marine 🦦

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This website is the result of my personal journey.
It's a "Tool Box" I turn to everyday.

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.

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.

Resources: Books, Podcasts & Therapists