Restore Groups
Journey to Freedom
An eight-week course of small group meetings and lessons to prepare you to take the first steps toward making important changes to your life. Using the workbook Journey to Freedom, developed by Restore Ministries Executive Director and Founder Scott Reall, this program is a prerequisite to all programs except Healthy Steps to Freedom and Freedom from Hurt to Hope.
Healthy Steps to Freedom
Is there a barrier between us and the gym?
Many of us have great intentions of exercising regularly but often find ourselves quickly falling out of the routine. Healthy Steps is designed to help identify the barriers keeping us from exercising and teach us how to overcome them. With Healthy Steps, a balance between mind, body and spirit is achievable.
What is Healthy Steps?
An 8-week course that meets for two hours once a week, combining group work with working out.
• Gain a new perspective to physical fitness and emotional health.
• Become motivated to take care of your self physically and emotionally.
• Connect with others who share in body image struggles.
• Learn the physiology of your emotions.
• Be introduced to a variety of exercise techniques, including:
• Spin, yoga style stretching, weightlifting (free weight and machines), walking/ running, water aerobics, core and abs.
• Opportunity to have group training with an experienced wellness professional.
• Night time and lunch time groups available.
Journey to Living With Courage: Freedom from Fear
It’s time to face your fears, courageously work through them, and begin to live in real freedom. In this 8-week group, you will learn how to:
• Identify good fear vs. destructive fear.
• Overcome the fear of rejection, abandonment and perfectionism.
• Conquer rage, anxiety and co-dependency.
• Live boldly the light of who you truly are.
• Achieve the goals and dreams once stifled by fear.
• Build a life of faith, surrender, passion and courage.
Journey to a Life of Significance: Freedom from Low Self-Esteem
This probing guide is about learning to break free from physical and emotional issues that can lead to depression and a number of other addictions. This 8-week class will help you:
• Redefine yourself.
• Come to believe in the inherent goodness that God has placed in all of us.
• Identify the special gifts and talents that are uniquely yours.
• See yourself as a beautiful person with unlimited potential.
Journey to a New Beginning After Loss: Freedom from the Pain of Disappointment
No one is immune to experiencing grief and loss in their life. Whether it is the loss of a dream, relationship or loved one, this class will help you:
• Uncover hidden losses.
• Learn to be honest in examining your loss.
• Deal with anger associated with loss.
• Deal with depression and sadness.
• Examine forgiveness.
• Move toward acceptance and a new beginning.
For more information or to purchase the Journey to Freedom book, visit www.journeytofreedom.org.
Twelve Steps to Freedom
Starting from the inside out, this Christ-centered, 12-step program helps free you from addiction and other life-controlling issues as you develop a personal relationship with God. Uses the workbook Power to Choose, by Mike S. O’Neill.
Freedom in Relationships
Get a better understanding of common relationship problems while learning important coping tools and healthy solutions to dealing with challenges in your relationships. This class uses the workbook Love is a Choice by Dr. Frank Minirth and Dr. Paul Meier.
Journey from Hurt to Hope:
Finding Freedom from the Pain of Grief and Loss
Are there things in your life you just don’t want to think about? Just want to forget? Finally let them go? Have you been successful at keeping those difficult, painful circumstances from reoccurring in your mind? Is the loss of relationships, dreams, finances, health, and/or loved ones affecting or controlling other areas of your life?
Journey From Hurt to HOPE provides tools for you to process the pain, disappointment, and loss of your life so you can live in the present with true hope.
We also offer professional, one-on-one counseling
Life's challenges are sometimes too much to sort through on your own. That's where Restore's counseling services can help with private, personal interaction with a professional therapist.
One-on-one sessions are offered in a confidential setting at Restore's counseling centers.
Counseling rates are based on a sliding scale according to income. We do not turn anyone away due to inability to pay.
Current Class Schedule Registration is preferred. For more information or to register, contact Meghan Smith (615) 565-6278 or mhsmith@ymcamidtn.org.
