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Karen Anne Hope Andrews - Searching for a New Hope
ORIGIN Mom of 2 beautiful children, wife of 21 years, happily married, happily professionally engaged in my dream career. Clinical Psychologist since 2009, 6 years in public health service in South Africa, working in private practice Dubai since 2014. I love what I do and I know that I'm good at it. I have achieved all the goals I set in my 20's. I'm so grateful to be working in a fascinating, exciting, meaningful field of work that also allows me to be flexible - I work online, from home. I am professionally and personally fulfilled, with a sense of purpose that is deeply meaningful. The bottleneck is... there is nowhere to go. There are no promotions or natural career progression. I already study every year to keep my skills sharp and stay mentally engaged. I could do a PhD, but it wouldn’t increase my income. I could open a clinic, but the bureaucratic burden and responsibility of managing other psychologists in the UAE is unappealing and feels draining. DESIRED FUTURE STATE I’m looking for clarity about what comes next. I love the work I do and would happily continue if it allowed me to earn significantly more. Right now, my vision is overly broad - to use my skills as a mature, experienced clinician in a way that has similar meaning, impact, and flexibility, but with much higher income. My ideal life would look the same, but with more freedom. I would travel more, surf more, spend more time with my husband and kids, socialise more, and cook occasionally instead of working every spare moment. WHY My husband is a teacher and not ambitious. We spent our early years together having incredible experiences and travelling. Now we have two children and no retirement plan or savings. We live modestly. We’re proud to be debt-free and own a small apartment near the beach in Cape Town. Our children attend private school, which is important to us, but it adds pressure. We can’t afford to travel nearly as much as we’d like, and the idea of working indefinitely is not sustainable.
Karen Anne Hope Andrews - Searching for a New Hope
@Krysti Hansen will do :) :)
Update 1 July 2026: Loving a more relaxed life. I closed my skool completely and turned off all notifications in all social media. I focused on my practice and I started watching a bunch of Netflix series with my family instead of working all the time. A war broke out in the Middle East on 28 February 2026 and I took one look at the bombs and interceptors which we could see clearly from our apartment (and hear!!!) and decided to leave. 5 days after it started we drove across the border of the UAE to Oman, parked our car in long term storage in Muscat then flew to Kenya. Almost got charged by a white rhino in Nairobi National park and had to drive at walking pace for over a kilometer in the middle of a herd of giraffe - they look peaceful from afar but close up all you can see are their massive hindquarters and strong legs that could easily kick over our open-top vehicle. We flew to Johannesburg via a stopover in Malawi and eventually landed in Cape Town after an epic 5 day trek. Picked up our other car from its home in long term storage there and drove 1000km to the beautiful eastern cape to stay with our brother-in-law for the next few months. It was utterly peaceful living in his beautiful house on the marina and the clean air cleared our allergies and our heads. We came back to Dubai in mid May, stopping in Oman to collect our car of course. But we’re here only to pack up and close up and finalize our affairs, which has been a bit difficult due to my husband being unfairly terminated during this time and a looming court case. However, in less than 2 weeks we will relocate permanently to beautiful Koh Samui in Thailand, and embark on a life on the beach. My husband has a great job at one of the 3 British international schools in the island and my kids are enrolled and will continue to benefit from a top tier private school education, but in a much smaller school (their school in Dubai is a “mega school” with 4000 kids this is a comparatively tiny school of 300 kids from FS1 to A levels). We are all excited and a bit sad, it’s always hard to say goodbye.
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@Diana Frank bless you Diana, your energy certainly impressed me, too.
1 like • Sep '25
@Joseph Isosaki hope all is well Joseph! Sending you lots of appreciation :)
Expand your Mind! 🤩
So, I'm doing a writing challenge in my communities! However, if anyone is interested, I will create one here that can help you do some of that inner work to help expand yourself! @Joseph Isosaki thought that this could be helpful! Let me know what you think! I'll post prompts daily for 30 days in the comments and if you feel up for it, please share what you thought or your answer! ❤️ Prompt 1: ⭐ A story about failure, growth, or surprise Oh, by the way! I've shared a PDF for this June writing Challenge. If you want, you can use it! Oh, and be sure to stay notified with this post since I'm adding the daily prompts as comments! ❤️
Expand your Mind! 🤩
1 like • Jun '25
@Joseph Isosaki thanks so much! I often feel so guilty for not doing more of the amazing things I could do. I have to practice what I preach in my practice and in my videos, and remind myself that it’s okay to let opportunities pass by. And to let some fires burn 🔥
0 likes • Jun '25
@Joseph Isosaki made me cry ❤️❤️❤️
What Are You Looking Forward To This Summer
It's so funny! As I asked this question, I immediately realized there's folks on the southern hemisphere in this group... So I guess I could ask... What are you looking forward to this winter as well :)
What Are You Looking Forward To This Summer
1 like • Jun '25
@Joseph Isosaki wow ~Japan, hey. It's a different world. In Taiwan we furnished our apartment with "rubbish" furniture which was literally left on the side walk especially around Chinese New year but it was perfect and the only reason it was thrown away is because the Taiwanese like to have everything new at Chinese New Year.
2 likes • Jun '25
and no one would pick it up except 'foreigners' like us. Happy your little guy can ride the bike, let's hope George can crack the code by the end of summer/winter, too.
New R&D Project ... Big Brain Repository
Friends, I want to build something crazy here in the coming months... So let me know all your thoughts. Good idea. Bad idea. That you would want to host a course in the repository.... Here that you would consider purchasing the Big Brain Bundle...
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New R&D Project ... Big Brain Repository
0 likes • Jun '25
I think it's an interesting idea. Like maybe have a tiny little coursera or udemy in your classroom, that's ultra niche and interesting. I think it's worth exploring, my only worry would be that it could easily get overwhelming you'd have to think about how to lay it out and present it.
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