Kara Ryska is an ACC-certified ontological life coach and the founder of Pathway to Peace. A mother of four, she has spent over a decade navigating life as a caregiver to a child who is a brain tumor survivor living with multiple disabilities, alongside the grief of a late-term miscarriage.

Those experiences shaped how Kara coaches: she helps mothers of children with special needs move from survival mode back toward their own identity, without asking them to be perfect or do it alone. Drawing on 8+ years of building support spaces, she created Pathway to Peace to give these moms simple tools, real connection, and a path back to feeling steady and strong.