🌿 Anxious & Ambitious

Back the Book → Build the Ateliers → Spark a Continent-Wide Art & Wellness Movement
A reward-based campaign by Equilibrium by Design

💡 From Global Burnout to Grounded Clarity

I’ve lived across borders, languages, and expectations—always chasing excellence, often ignoring exhaustion.

Behind the degrees, awards, and curated achievements was a nervous system on high alert. I thought I was the only one—until I started hearing the same thing from students, CEOs, founders, and creatives:

“I’m doing well, but my mind won’t shut off. I have so much to do—but I can’t keep going like this.”

This book—and the movement it launches—is my answer to that silent epidemic. It’s for the high-achievers with anxiety. The driven creatives who crave stillness. The leaders who are tired of white-knuckling their way through success.

🌍 Why this began with Kashmir—but belongs to all of us

Though born in Canada, my family’s story began with exile from Kashmir in 1980s & 90s. That experience shaped a generational legacy of reinvention, resilience, and relentless ambition.

Anxious & Ambitious is the modern evolution of that legacy. It's a bridge between high performance and nervous system peace, built with both clinical insight and lived experience.

📖 What You’re Supporting:

This isn’t charity—it’s a creative, cultural investment in a better way forward.

A clinically reviewed, executive-grade field guide for high-performers navigating anxiety, burnout, and purpose. Designed to be as beautiful as it is effective, this is not just a book—it’s a recovery tool for the driven.

Immersive half-day experiences blending neuroscience, storytelling, somatic tools, and sensory artistry. These are creative sanctuaries for reflection, recalibration, and recovery.

Curated gatherings for meaningful dialogue and collective growth. Intimate, intentional, and insight-driven—less small talk, more big questions.

🎁 Your Perks (These Are Purchases, Not Donations)

Choose your reward and take part in the movement:

• 📕 First-edition copy of Anxious & Ambitious

• 🪞 Tickets to in-person Ateliers in select cities

• 🎨 Limited edition art prints + sensory ritual kits

• 🥂 Access to private Salons and founder Q&As

• 💌 Behind-the-scenes updates & personalized notes

Note: These are not charitable donations—they're purchases toward a creative project with tangible deliverables.

🌱 Giving Forward: Our Future Impact

Once profitable, 10% of annual net proceeds will support:

• North American nonprofit partners advancing trauma-informed mental health and resilience work

• Our own upcoming initiatives, which will include art-wellness programs for young people, educators, and underserved communities

We're currently designing these programs to bring grounded ambition into schools, leadership spaces, and public life.

Your pledge doesn’t just fund a book—it seeds an entire ecosystem of healing and high performance.

🗓️ Timeline at a Glance

• Spring 2025: Crowdfunding launch

• Summer: Book design + first Ateliers

• Fall: Salon series + early program pilots

• Stretch Goal – $90,000: Two additional Ateliers and three more Salons across North America

🧭 Your Call to Grounded Action

If your 2 a.m. thoughts blend brilliance and burnout…
If you crave success without losing your soul…
If you're ready for a playbook that’s both clinically grounded and artistically alive—

→ Pledge boldly.
→ Share this with someone brilliant who’s secretly overwhelmed.
→ Watch a book become community—and community become cultural change.

From inherited exile to intentional equilibrium, let’s prove that ambition and serenity can coexist—by design.

👊 Pledge now | 📢 Spread the word | 🎨 Build the first wave of Anxious & Ambitious