Caring Together
Overview
Courage to Change – Liberation – Self-Encounter – Essence – Faith – Hope – Healing – Respect – Body – Spirit – Plenitude
INNER BALANCE is a project that promotes awakening to a more conscious, loving, and balanced life. It is based on the idea that true transformation happens both on the personal level (self-encounter and embracing one’s own shadows) and on the collective level (creating bonds of light and cooperation among people).
The proposal is to combine self-awareness practices—meditation, energetic experiences, deep dialogues, and reflections on the ego and the shadow—along with a compassionate view of the reality around us, encouraging each participant to find their middle way. It is in that point of balance that the courage to change, the liberation from old patterns, and the complete experience of body, mind, spirit, and emotions in harmony develop.
INNER BALANCE – Book Club
A Safe Place for Your Story to Be Heard and Healed
OVERVIEW
The INNER BALANCE project has partnered with LAUGHTER4YaSoul Ministries to form a book club. The INNER BALANCE Book Club, created especially for women, is a safe and welcoming space for emotional healing and spiritual renewal. It is part of the broader INNER BALANCE project, which promotes a more conscious, loving, and balanced life.
This book club is the beginning of a sacred journey—an invitation to pause, reflect, and gently reconnect with your inner self amid daily life. Through soulful readings, compassionate sharing, and nurturing practices, we create space to listen within, honor our stories, and walk together toward healing, wholeness, and the quiet courage to transform.
FIRST BOOK:
The Heartache No One Sees by Sheila Walsh
This powerful book speaks to the silent pain many women carry. It reminds us that God sees every tear and longs to meet us in our broken places—not with judgment, but with grace and healing. It is an invitation to embrace our stories and trust in God’s love again.
PROJECT STRUCTURE
PARTICIPANTS
– Women of all ages and backgrounds.
– You do not have to be Christian to join — only open to the process of inner healing through faith and reflection.
– Maximum 10 women per group to create intimacy and safety.
– Each participant receives a book.
OBJECTIVES
– Create a safe and intimate space for honest sharing.
– Promote emotional healing through reading, listening, and vulnerability.
– Strengthen faith, self-compassion, and sisterhood among women.
– Encourage personal reflection and release of limiting beliefs.
– Integrate spiritual practices and emotional balance into everyday life.
Reconnect your divine essence to God – understood as returning to closeness with our Creator, recognizing that within each of us dwells the presence of God.
This reconnection strengthens our faith, restores our sense of purpose, and renews our hope.
“Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?”
(1 Corinthians 3:16)
CONNECTION TO INNER BALANCE
This book club reflects the soul of the INNER BALANCE project — a journey of awakening that happens when we bring our whole selves into the light of love, truth, and divine healing. Through reading, community, and spiritual reflection, women can experience:
Deep emotional release
Spiritual growth rooted in grace
Renewed connection with themselves, each other, and God
Courage to forgive, transform, and begin again
FRUITS OF THIS JOURNEY
Restoration of emotional and spiritual well-being
Increased self-awareness and compassion
Strengthened bonds among women
A deepened sense of identity
Empowerment to serve others from a place of inner wholeness
BEYOND THE GROUP
At the end of the reading cycle, women are invited (if they feel called) to continue living out their transformation through:
Acts of kindness and service
Volunteering with OUR HOUSE or INNER BALANCE
Becoming facilitators for new book club groups
Offering spiritual or emotional support to other women
HOW TO JOIN
Message us directly to receive more information
Fill out a short interest form
Participants will be added to a waiting list or the next available group
Commitment: presence at meetings, open heart, and confidentiality
Who Can Participate
This project welcomes all community members, especially:
- People experiencing emotional stress, anxiety, or symptoms of depression.
- Individuals facing social or financial challenges.
- Anyone suffering from chronic pain, physical tension, or fatigue.
- Those interested in caring for their overall well-being.
Location
Meetings take place at 175 Territorial Road, Benton Harbor
BEYOND THE GROUP
MEETING FORMAT
At the end of the reading cycle, women are invited (if they feel called) to continue living out their transformation through:
- Acts of kindness and service
- Volunteering with OUR HOUSE or INNER BALANCE
- Becoming facilitators for new book club groups
- Offering spiritual or emotional support to other women
- HOW TO JOIN
- Message us directly to receive more information
- Fill out a short interest form
- Participants will be added to a waiting list or the next available group
- Commitment: presence at meetings, open heart, and confidentiality
FINAL WORD
INNER BALANCE – Women’s Book Club is more than a reading group. It is a sacred circle where stories are honored, wounds are met with love, and hearts are gently led back to peace through life. You are not alone. You are seen. You are loved. Let’s walk this path of healing—together.
Restoration of emotional and spiritual well-being Increased self-awareness and compassion Strengthened bonds among women A deepened sense of identity Empowerment to serve others from a place of inner wholeness
