Restore Small Groups

Restore Small Groups Helping people transform their lives through safe, quality, and affordable peer-to-peer small groups. Everyone is struggling with something. You are not alone!

In small group, we extend love, empathy, and respect to each other in our shared humanity. Our groups consist of 5 to10 participants and 2 trained facilitators, all who commit to an 8-week journey together. In group we get to the heart of our struggles, building intentional, healing relationships on the way. With thousands of participants worldwide, we have seen transformation in the areas of anxiety, depression, relationship issues, low self-worth, grief and loss, rage, loneliness, or anything else holding you back from a full life. Restore Small Groups was founded by Scott Reall at the YMCA of Middle Tennessee and now operates as it's own non-profit. Scott and Executive Director Sara Hamill work to intentionally provide Journey to Freedom, our flagship book, and other small groups as a means to offer a path to lasting transformation for anyone dealing with life's struggles.

Did you know Journey to Freedom is available as an audiobook?You can listen to Journey to Freedom on Spotify, Apple Book...
01/22/2026

Did you know Journey to Freedom is available as an audiobook?
You can listen to Journey to Freedom on Spotify, Apple Books, and Amazon.

Read in the voice of the author himself, Scott Reall.

Check it out!

Healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken or striving to become someone new. It’s about creating space where honesty, pre...
01/21/2026

Healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken or striving to become someone new. It’s about creating space where honesty, presence, and connection allow what’s already true and good to emerge. In community, we experience the presence of God meeting us through one another and guiding us toward greater wholeness.

01/19/2026
So great to host and spend time with our brilliant and beautiful friends and partners in hope and healing from Albania. ...
01/16/2026

So great to host and spend time with our brilliant and beautiful friends and partners in hope and healing from Albania. — y’all are amazing people. We hope you had a wonderful time in Nashville! 😊

For 25 years, we’ve walked alongside partners to equip them with tools that foster emotionally safe, spiritually grounde...
01/16/2026

For 25 years, we’ve walked alongside partners to equip them with tools that foster emotionally safe, spiritually grounded, and deeply relational groups. Together, we create spaces where people are met in their shared humanity, stories are honored, and healing can take root.

Our work is faith-based and Christ-centered, committed to mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Through intentional community and compassionate listening, groups become sacred spaces of care where each person is reminded: you matter.

We believe transformation happens one person at a time and one group at a time. And we’re honored to do this work alongside partners who are committed to spreading healing communities around the world.

If your organization longs to cultivate deeper well-being through safe, intentional community, we’d love to explore partnering together.

Emotional pain has a way of shaping us whether we face it or avoid it. When we choose honesty and courage, even pain can...
01/15/2026

Emotional pain has a way of shaping us whether we face it or avoid it. When we choose honesty and courage, even pain can become a place of healing and freedom.

Restore groups create space to face what’s real together, with compassion, safety, and hope, grounded in the presence of God and care for the whole person.

Journey to Wholeness serves as the heart-centered half of the YMCA’s 16-week ABC experience. It creates space for emotio...
01/14/2026

Journey to Wholeness serves as the heart-centered half of the YMCA’s 16-week ABC experience. It creates space for emotional, relational, and spiritual healing after cancer. We are deeply honored to partner with the YMCA to bring this care into communities across Middle Tennessee.
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Find more info here- https://www.ymcamidtn.org/programs/health-and-fitness/support-groups/after-breast-cancer

In Journey to Wholeness, participants explore:
• What true hope is and how to make peace with fear
• What is within your control and how to let go of what is not
• The health of relationships with others, yourself, and your body since cancer
• The importance of grieving the losses and changes cancer brings
• The truth that you are more than a cancer diagnosis
• How to create new vision for life
• Why caring for yourself is necessary
• How to truly live and thrive after cancer

Through this partnership, Restore Small Groups is honored to walk alongside survivors with compassion, community, and hope.

If YOU would like to bring Journey to Wholeness into your community send us a message!

Restore Groups are Christ-centered spaces where people slow down, tell the truth about their lives, and experience heali...
01/13/2026

Restore Groups are Christ-centered spaces where people slow down, tell the truth about their lives, and experience healing through honest community, emotional awareness, and grace-filled transformation.


At Restore, we believe grief needs space, language, and community in order to move us forward rather than keep us stuck....
01/09/2026

At Restore, we believe grief needs space, language, and community in order to move us forward rather than keep us stuck.

Our upcoming group, Journey to a New Beginning After Loss, is a guided, 8-week process for anyone carrying loss—whether recent or long past—who longs for healing, meaning, and a way forward.

Tuesdays | Jan 20 – Mar 10
6:00–7:30 PM
In-person
Register at restoresmallgroups.org/upcoming-offerings

01/08/2026

restoresmallgroups.org/group-offerings

Restore Small Groups partners with churches, nonprofits, YMCAs, counseling centers, recovery spaces, and more to offer a...
01/07/2026

Restore Small Groups partners with churches, nonprofits, YMCAs, counseling centers, recovery spaces, and more to offer a guided, small-group process that helps people move from survival toward meaningful change and lasting transformation.

Our faith-based curriculum and group process is trauma-informed, relational, and deeply human. It creates safe, structured spaces where participants can grow self-awareness, process life experiences, strengthen emotional health, and build meaningful connection with others.

Restore groups don’t replace therapy or pastoral care. They complement them by giving people a consistent, facilitated space to practice honesty, regulation, and belonging.

If your organization is looking for a proven group process that supports mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being—and equips people with tools they can carry forward—we’d love to explore a partnership.

restoresmallgroups.org/partnership-interest

Discover a range of inspirational books and resources to support personal growth and community engagement through Restore Small Groups.

In order for true life-change to be lasting, Prochaska said there are stages of change that all people must go through: ...
01/05/2026

In order for true life-change to be lasting, Prochaska said there are stages of change that all people must go through:
• Precontemplation – Not yet seeing the problem
• Contemplation – Knowing something needs to change, but feeling stuck
• Preparation – Desire growing, readiness emerging
• Action – Taking intentional steps, fueled from within
• Maintenance – Sustaining change through awareness and support

In a Restore, you don’t have to be ready to fix your life.
You just have to be willing to begin where you are.

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Nashville, TN
37203

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