Kara Schug

Transformation Coach & Guide

Hi, I’m Coach Schug. My path to coaching grew out of real life experience. Facing profound change taught me how clarity and deliberate action can create transformation—and now, I’m passionate about helping others uncover that same power within themselves.

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My Vision

I envision a world where people stop passing their pain forward and start passing their healing down—where the fearful inner critic no longer shapes families, and freedom, peace, and emotional safety become the true definition of success.

My Mission

My mission is to guide as many people as humanly possible to make friends with the fearful inner critic in their head—and transform it into a loving inner ally—so they can respond to life with clarity, compassion, and real freedom, rather than react from old survival patterns.

I help High-achievers break through hidden saboteurs, activate whole-brain thinking & finally feel the fulfillment they’ve been chasing.

For more than three decades, I have studied personal growth, psychology, meditation, breath-work, the subconscious mind, and the inner mechanics of self-sabotage.

I’ve read over 1,000 books, trained with world-class teachers, and devoted my life to understanding why some people rise — and why others stay stuck.

But my deepest learning didn’t come from a book.

It came from my own body.

I did everything right but my body still said, "No!"

I live a clean, healthy, and intentional life.

I was/am…

Vegan.
Gluten-free.
Organic or Non~GMO
No caffeine.
No tobacco.
Almost no alcohol.
Low sugar.
Working out four times a week.
Walking 10,000+ steps a day.
Prioritizing sleep.
Growing constantly.
Doing the inner work.

I thought that was enough.

And yet…

A desmoid tumor — a non-cancerous but aggressive, fast-growing tumor — kept getting bigger.

I tried everything.

Every expert.
Every intervention.
I even went to the Mayo Clinic.

Nothing slowed it down. And for the first time in my life…

I couldn’t hustle or discipline my way out of it.

gluten free, organic, non-gmo, exercise, low-fat protein, hydration

That's when everything changed.

I came across the book Radical Remission, which studied more than 1500 people who healed against all odds, with no medical intervention. I realized I was already doing eight of the ten practices they had done to heal.

Except two.

The two I wasn’t doing were:

Accepting social support
Releasing past trauma

I had spent a lifetime being

Strong.
Independent.
Resilient.
The helper, not the one who needed help.

But my body was telling the truth my mind had been avoiding:

You cannot out-hustle your wounds.
You cannot outrun your past.
And you cannot heal alone.

I didn’t want to face my trauma.

But I was more fearful of what would happen if I didn’t.

So I finally said yes.

I was led into the “cave I was afraid to enter” — the very place Joseph Campbell said holds the treasure we seek.

And that decision changed everything.

It didn’t just support my healing, and shrink the tumor.

It opened a level of peace, ease, joy, and wholeness I didn’t know was possible. And it was VERY hard to allow someone to guide me through this, because I was so ridiculously independent!

As my mentor, Dr. Ron Stotts, says, “you got into this mess in relationship, you have to get out of it in relationship.”

Today I help others do the same.

I guide high-achievers who:

have done years of personal growth
have outgrown surface-level solutions
look successful on paper but feel stuck inside
have “tried everything,” but nothing has worked
are hitting emotional or relational walls
are exhausted from carrying everything alone
are ready — finally — to heal at the root
are willing to enter the cave
want freedom, peace, and power from within

My clients do not come to me casually.

They come because they’ve reached the edge of their old life. They come because something has to change — and they can’t pretend anymore. I know that place intimately.

Which is exactly why I can guide you through it.

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My work is NOT traditional coaching.

My work is Deep Transformation.

I use a unique combination of:

whole-brain thinking
breathwork
subconscious reprogramming
sentence completion
somatic + emotional release
trauma integration
presence practices
inner-child healing
unconscious pattern identification
identity rewiring
spiritual grounding

This isn’t about working harder. Or being more motivated. Or pushing through.

This is about becoming whole — from the inside out.

If you are reading this and something inside you knows you're ready...

You are exactly who I serve as a Transformation Coach!

This work is for the 1% of people who aren’t afraid to:

go deep
face what’s been avoided
release the past
stop performing
stop pretending
tell the truth
do the inner work
show up fully
rise into who they were always meant to be

If that’s you, WELCOME to the first day of the rest of your life!!!

Your next chapter begins here. Schedule your Discovery Call now.

Schedule Your Discovery Call

This is a sacred space designed to help you see clearly — often for the first time — what is truly holding you back.

You will walk away with:

a deeper understanding of your hidden saboteurs
clarity on the real root of your stuckness
insight into the patterns running your life beneath the surface
a sense of what your next right step is
and a feeling of relief, because you finally understand what’s been going on inside you

If you’re ready to explore what’s possible from here, I invite you into this conversation.