EOC | Ep 6. Anxiety that wraps around you (Shomy Hassan Chowdhury)
Ep. 6 - Anxiety that wraps around you with Shomy Hassan Choudhury
What happens when the world asks too much, and you say yes to all of it?
In this episode of Emotions of Change, we meet Shomy Hassan Choudhury, a global sanitation activist whose life looks dazzling from the outside: TED talks, White House invitations, Instagram spotlights, photos with royalty.
But when political violence erupts back home in Bangladesh, and she finds herself helpless from afar, anxiety begins to wrap around her like a red snake. As she tries to hold it all: work, family, duty, and image, Shomy shares what it costs to keep showing up for others while ignoring your own needs.
This is a story about guilt in moments of joy, people-pleasing in the face of burnout, and the slow realization that anxiety isn’t something to fight, but something to listen to.
In the second half of the episode, Michelle and our producer Katarina decides to watch Inside Out 2, letting a Pixar movie help unpack what anxiety is really trying to tell us, and what changes when we meet it with compassion instead of control.
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