Inner Balance- A Wellness Center

01/12/2026

Team Holiday Party! We missed a couple of our amazing providers but had a great time leaning into our imperfections!

12/31/2025

A New Year's Blessing

May this new year unfold with light and promise.
May your body feel strong, your mind feel clear
and your heart remain open to possibility.

May you awaken with purpose in your breath
and rest at night knowing you did enough.

May opportunity meet your effort,
patience walk beside ambition,
and challenges sharpen you
without ever hardening you.

May laughter arrive often and stay awhile.
May love, old and new, grow deeper, truer.

May you give freely without losing yourself,
and receive fully, without hesitation.

And when the road bends without warning,
may you trust the strength you’ve earned
and the wisdom you carry to guide you.

May this be a year of steady growth,
honest joy, and gentle courage,
a future that feels not only hopeful,
but open and welcoming too.

~ 'A New Year's Blessing' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Olya Haydamaka

12/31/2025

100% this! The New Year brings pressure to make sweeping changes but what if the change is to be slower, to move through the world with an increased presence and kindness for not just ourselves, but others. Happy New Year, from all of us at Inner Balance!

A Willingness to Keep Showing Up

I step into this new year
gently, without resolutions,
with just a simple willingness,
to keep going,
to keep moving forward.

Not the bright, declarative kind of decision
that arrives with banners and promises,
but the quieter kind,
the one that asks for nothing grand.

No transformation.
Just an honest effort
to place one foot in front of the other,
without needing it to be a victory march.

To keep going isn’t strength.
It’s letting the days arrive as they are,
some heavy,
some hollow,
some unexpectedly kind.

It’s allowing grief, fatigue, memory, and love
to share the same room,
without insisting that any of them leave.

There is no list.
No reinvention.
No deadline for becoming someone new.
There is only the steady choice
to remain present,
to trust that willingness itself
is an act of grace.

So this year begins
not with resolve, but with intention:
the intention to stay present,
the intention to try again tomorrow,
the intention to simply keep showing up.

~ 'A Willingness to Keep Showing Up' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Olya Haydamaka

09/17/2025

Sesame Street for the win, again!

09/11/2025

Today was rough. It’s becoming normal to hold trauma while being traumatized. The world may be on fire but if we can offer presence we can foster hope. From hope, change is born.

09/11/2025

09/10/2025

08/16/2025

With curiosity, gently pay attention to what happens when you breathe? Now, what happens when you rest? Just notice what comes up.

08/13/2025

What a treat to have our Florida staff visiting Chicago this week! We love you Maria!

07/28/2025

Raise your hand if this was you? 🖐