Body In Balance Peru, LLC

01/03/2026

So excited for my dear friend’s launch, Susan L Mattern and her new business launch. A continuation of her long career of helping people as a massage therapist. 🎉

✨ A New Chapter, Built on 21 Years of Care ✨

Hi friends,

I'm Susan L. Mattern, and I’m excited to share something new happening in my career. After 21 years of supporting others through massage therapy and stress relief, I’m officially expanding my work to include Life & Health Coaching.

Over the years, I’ve seen how many caregivers, helpers, and overwhelmed professionals quietly carry too much — often stuck in habits they don’t even realize they’ve built. Habits of overdoing, staying strong for everyone else, and running on empty.

My coaching focuses on gently uncovering those hidden patterns, rebuilding balance, and creating healthier routines that actually last — supporting the whole person: mind, body, habits, and nervous system.

This isn’t a brand-new beginning — it’s the next step in a career devoted to helping people feel better, inside and out.

If you’re feeling stretched thin, living on autopilot, or simply curious about this work, I’d love to connect. 💛

— Susan L. Mattern
🌿 Helping caregivers & overwhelmed professionals break hidden habits, find balance, and build a healthier life.

04/30/2025

Many small businesses have appreciated this beautiful building for decades, from real estate and insurance sales to podiatry and massage therapy. Set on the bustling corner lot of West Main Street and Forest Avenue in Peru, Indiana, this recently renovated 1300 square foot space with a basement and detached garage, boasts a prime location for high traffic equating to major visibility for any business. Its off-street parking lot makes for ease of access for your customers. The customizable lighted sign in the front yard garnishes attention as one of the largest on Main Street, still grandfathered in for its size. Partially handicapped accessible with an optional check-in desk in the welcome area, four spacious rooms, two bathrooms, and a kitchenette.
We’d like to keep this property suitable for commercial use and continue to grow the commerce of Peru.
We’re motivated and willing to help adjust anything to suit your needs. Message me or call my realtor at Creative Realty for a showing and see if it’s the right fit for you.
Serious inquiries only.

632 W Main St, Peru, IN 46970 is for sale. View 28 photos of this 3 bed, 1.5 bath, 1340 sqft. single family home with a list price of $137500.

02/28/2025

This week, the world lost a beautiful soul, and the heavens gained an angel forever.
Amy came into my life just a few months after my Momma left this world in late 2018. She was a breath of fresh air and filled me and the whole shop with hope for the future. She was a kind hearted person and one who made you feel heard and seen always, and as a massage therapist, held enormous compassion for all people, not only just her clients. She made me a better human and therapist everyday I was in her presence, and I believe a lot of people felt that way, too. She was so dedicated to her gift of helping people. Her keen massage skills were expanding and beautifully evolving when she had that first fateful seizure while performing a session in May of 2023. Life changed immediately and would never be the same again.
It is with great condolences to Amy’s family and loved ones, that I share the sad news of Amy’s passing with former clients and those who may still follow this page. ♥️
Rest peacefully now, dear friend.

10/31/2024

Our beautiful corner lot property is currently up for sale and would make a wonderful location for just the right business or family. It’s in a quiet neighborhood with off street parking, within walking distance to the YMCA and close to everything on the west end of town.

MLS #: 202428461. Highly visible corner lot in the west end of Peru where you will find continued development in the city. Ample parking in the dedicated lot, and a 1 car detached building for storage. The building offers space for a multiple of uses, within the building you will find an open office...

10/31/2024

⚽️ Our YMCA soccer team, The Storm, finished second in the tournament last Saturday. We’re so proud of these kids and how much they’ve grown and improved this season. They were a great group of kids to work with and, as always with coaching, we enjoyed getting to know their families too.

10/06/2024

HELLO OCTOBER
THE SEASON OF LETTING GO

And so begins the season of letting go,
when Mother Nature shows us all,
how it’s done.

Let go,
free yourself,
shake it off,
drop it,
give way for the new.

Create space for new thoughts, new ideas,
new adventures and new connections,
by shedding the dead weight you’ve been carrying around,
for so long.

And whilst you are there, being reborn and renewed,
let go of old anxieties too.

Let go of any doubts, fears or beliefs which no longer serve you well.

Release bitterness or past hurts which feast on your beauty.

Be brave,
Don’t fear the nakedness as your leaves slip away.

Mother Nature doesn’t,
watch and learn.

✍️ Donna Ashworth
🎨 Martin Eager Runique

10/02/2024

Wings Etc is having a Dine to Donate tomorrow, with proceeds going to the Miami County YMCA 😋Sounds like a takeout night to me! ⚽️ 🏀 🎾🏊🏻‍♀️ 🏋️ 🏃🏼

08/20/2024

632 West Main st…It’s a beautiful day to get a new traffic light post! I’m excited about the change and looking forward to this intersection becoming a safer one for our community and the West side.
Oh, and by the way, that’s my For Sale sign out front, if anyone’s interested 😉☺️

08/01/2024

📣You might see some new signs in the yard at Body In Balance this week. Yep, my building is up for sale. This is a decision thats been heavy on my heart for a while.

A little history: I started practicing massage therapy in 2005. In 2011, after building up almost 100 fiercely devoted clients, I opened Body In Balance with the mission to employ multiple skilled therapists to help serve the massage needs of our community.

That was over 13 years and 12 talented Licensed Massage Therapists ago. I’ve had the joy of having my late Mother work alongside me in the office. Both of my daughters served internships, learned some bookkeeping, and became Master fitted sheet folders at my practice. They, and now my young son have grown up watching me build this business and learn about entrepreneurship.
Six years ago, my husband and I bought and renovated our building at 632 West Main Street, turning it into the beautiful facility it is today, on which we continue to get compliments 🥰 ( I love that! )

The skillful Therapists with whom I’ve had the pleasure to work throughout the years, have taught me so many priceless lessons. I was not only the “Boss” but a student, and I learned a lot from each of them; the good, the bad, the ugly, and even forged incredible friendships for life.

Of course, I couldn’t have done any of this without the support of my clients. Most have been with me for over 10 years, some have even been with me since my first day practicing in Peru in 2006! Throughout the years of conversations with my clients, I’ve learned so much about life, relationships, aging, etc. They, along with my trusted Therapists, have cared for me like family and allowed me the freedom of flexibility as I needed it. I will forever be grateful for the opportunity to have had these relationships, if even for just a moment in time 💕

I am currently in the process of drastically scaling back my clientele. Former LMT’s of Body In Balance are successfully providing therapy in our community and I am happy to give out referrals to these fantastic Therapists, anytime.
I’ll continue to provide bodywork for my regulars at this location until it sells. This property is zoned for commercial or residential, so if you know anyone looking for either, feel free to send them mine and Stacia’s way!

Thank you, Peru, for supporting my small business all these years. It’s been a dream and I have immense gratitude. 💜

06/28/2024

Make sure to check out Miami County’s 4-H Fair this year!!

05/27/2024

🇺🇸On this Memorial Day, we remember and honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice 🇺🇸