RETURN to LIFE
PROGRAM
A Whole-Person Breast Cancer Journey
Cancer can change the way you experience your body, your relationships, your priorities, and life itself.
RETURN to LIFE is a guided experience for women navigating breast cancer, treatment, recovery, and life beyond diagnosis. It creates space to understand what you are moving through, reconnect with yourself, strengthen your voice, and begin building a supportive way of living rooted in greater awareness, intention, connection, and aliveness.
Created and guided by Tami Herbst, Cancer Journey Mentor, Radical Self-Advocate, and Founder of SolFlo Life.
Cancer can be one of your greatest teachers. A wake-up call that begins your journey back to your body, your truth, and your life.
THREE WAYS TO BEGIN
Back to Life offers three levels of participation. Begin with an introduction, experience the work at SolFlo, or step into the complete five-week guided journey.
1. RETURN TO LIFE: OPEN HOUSE
A Free Hybrid Introduction
Join us in person at SolFlo Life or live online for an introduction to the RETURN to LIFE philosophy and whole-person approach.
We will explore the five interconnected dimensions of our being:
Mental
Emotional
Physical
Energetic
Spiritual
You will meet Tami, hear part of her personal breast cancer journey, experience a brief restorative practice, and learn how self-advocacy and whole-person support can help you become a more active participant in your life and care.
During the open house, you will:
Explore what whole-person healing means
Learn about the five dimensions of the Back to Life framework
Experience a brief sound, breath, or sensory practice
Discover tools for reconnection and self-advocacy
Learn about the retreat and five-week guided journey
Connect with women who understand that life has changed
2. RETURN TO LIFE: RETREAT
A Half-Day Immersion at SolFlo Life
Move beyond information and experience the Back to Life approach through your senses, body, creativity, and connection with others.
This intimate half-day retreat combines guided conversation with restorative and experiential practices designed to help you slow down, listen inward, reconnect with your body, and remember the parts of you that are still ready to experience beauty, pleasure, joy, and life.
Your Retreat Includes:
Live sound immersion
Breath and gentle somatic practices
Aromatherapy and sensory exploration
Color, light, and circadian rhythm education
Energy and frequency experiences
Nature connection
Reflection, ritual, and creative expression
Nourishing tea, elixirs, and plant-based bites
Personal self-advocacy and integration practices
Connection with a small community of women
Come exactly as you are. There is nothing to perform, perfect, or prove.
Investment: $222
Your retreat investment may be applied toward the complete five-week Back to Life program.
3. RETURN TO LIFE: GUIDED JOURNEY
A Five-Week Hybrid Whole-Person Experience
The complete RETURN to LIFE journey brings education, personal reflection, immersive experiences, practical resources, and community together.
Each week includes an online teaching and conversation centered around one dimension of your whole being, accompanied by an in-person experiential immersion at SolFlo Life.
You will begin building a personal toolkit and supportive lifestyle that reflect your needs, values, medical care, daily reality, and vision for the life ahead.
THE PROCESS + SCHEDULE
WEEK ONE: MIND Exploration
Explore the thoughts, beliefs, questions, and stories that can emerge with a diagnosis.We will discuss information overwhelm, fear-based thinking, personal choice, asking better questions, strengthening your voice, and becoming an active participant in your care.
Tuesday September 29th @7pm ONLINE
Sunday October 4th @1pm In-person @SolFloLIFE
WEEK TWO: EMOTION Exploration
Create space for the full emotional truth of your experience. We will explore fear, anger, grief, uncertainty, vulnerability, boundaries, expression, support, and the possibility of experiencing joy without denying what is difficult.
Tuesday October 6th @7pm ONLINE
WEEK THREE: PHYSICAL Exploration
Reconnect with your body through greater care, awareness, and compassion. We will explore rest, nourishment, hydration, movement, sleep, circadian rhythm, body awareness, and sustainable daily practices that can complement the care provided by your medical team.
Tuesday October 13th @7pm ONLINE
Sunday October 18th @1pm In-person @SolFloLIFE
WEEK FOUR: ENERGETIC Exploration (Tuesday October 10th @7pm)
Become more aware of what restores your energy and what depletes it. We will explore your environment, sensory inputs, relationships, personal boundaries, sound, light, color, nature, frequency, and practices that help you feel more grounded and connected.
Tuesday October 20th @7pm ONLINE
WEEK FIVE: SPIRITUAL Exploration (Tuesday October 27th @7pm)
Reconnect with meaning, trust, identity, creativity, and your relationship with life. We will explore what you believe, what matters now, who you are becoming, and how to create a life that includes truth, beauty, connection, play, purpose, and aliveness.
Tuesday October 27th @7pm ONLINE
Sunday November 1st @1pm In-person @SolFloLIFE
YOUR JOURNEY INCLUDES
Five live online teaching and sharing circles
Five experiential gatherings at SolFlo Life
Guided MindSpa practices
Weekly reflections and lifestyle experiments
Self-advocacy tools and resources
A simple Back to Life companion workbook
Supportive group check-ins
A private community for connection
A personal Back to Life integration plan
Opportunities to continue through SolFlo membership and private guidance
Founding Circle Investment: $
THIS EXPERIENCE MAY BE FOR YOU IF...
Breast cancer has changed the way you see yourself or your life
You want support for the person living through the diagnosis
You feel overwhelmed by information and want to strengthen your voice
You want to reconnect with your body without blame or fear
You are seeking practical tools alongside emotional and spiritual support
You want to experience healing as more than appointments and treatments
You are ready to rediscover connection, creativity, pleasure, and joy
You want to be part of an intimate community of women
MEET YOUR GUIDE
TAMI HERBST
Cancer Journey Mentor • Radical Self-Advocate • Founder of SolFlo Life
Tami created RETURN to LIFE from her lived experience with breast cancer and the decade-long journey of restoration, self-discovery, and personal transformation that followed.
Her path led her into deeper relationships with nature, sound, nourishment, nervous-system care, creativity, spirituality, self-advocacy, and the everyday practices that help us reconnect with ourselves and feel fully alive.
Today, she brings those elements together at SolFlo Life, her immersive wellness and retreat space in Chicago.
Tami is not here to tell you how your journey should look. She is here to walk beside you, share what she has learned, help you ask meaningful questions, and support you in discovering what Back to Life means for you.
HEALING, DEFINED DIFFERENTLY
RETURN to LIFE does not define healing as a perfect outcome or a promise that disease will disappear.
Here, healing means tending to the whole person. It means reconnecting with yourself, strengthening your capacity to make informed choices, creating supportive daily rhythms, and allowing truth, rest, beauty, community, creativity, and joy to remain part of your life.
RETURN to LIFE is an educational, restorative, and complementary experience. It does not diagnose or treat cancer and is not a replacement for medical or mental health care. Participants should discuss complementary practices with their qualified healthcare professionals.
YOUR DIAGNOSIS IS PART OF YOUR STORY.
IT IS NOT THE END OF YOUR STORY.
[BEGIN WITH THE FREE OPEN HOUSE]