Today we’d like to introduce you to Cheri Houle.
Hi Cheri, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
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I became a Licensed Massage Therapist in 1994. Within a year I was working privately with professional football players, mostly Miami Dolphins defensive players. I was later brought in for NFL Players Association events in Fort Lauderdale, and until 2005 a group of Atlanta Falcons players flew me up every month. Over the same years I built a South Florida practice that grew to span five generations of families, including doctors, lawyers, psychologists and business owners.
After my daughter was born in 1998, I went back to school for alternative medicine. Over three decades I added fascia-focused bodywork, breathwork, somatic coaching, nutrition coaching, PEMF and energy medicine. All of it taught me one thing: force is not healing. The nervous system decides what the tissues are allowed to change, so regulation has to come before release.
I also know injury from the inside. For almost 30 years I’ve lived with the effects of fluoroquinolone antibiotics like Cipro, Levaquin and Avelox: damage to my mitochondria, gut, nerves and collagen, and injury after injury because of it. These drugs carry FDA boxed warnings for serious side effects, including tendon rupture and nerve damage, yet many people take them without knowing the risks. Today I advocate for informed consent, and I bring what my body has taught me to others working on their own recovery.
Today I run For Love Of The Body™ and Amplified Health and Wellness here in the Tampa area. My work has shifted from working on people’s bodies to teaching people how to become their own healer. I still offer hands-on Fascial Evaluation & Alignment, but now I use it to inform coaching rather than as the whole service. I help active people with pain, injury and illness rebuild trust with their body’s intelligence, using the methods I’ve developed: the ONA Method and the BOARDR Breath System.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
No, it hasn’t been a smooth road. The biggest challenge has always been my own body. The fluoroquinolone damage meant injury after injury, and more than once a new venture got derailed because healing had to come first and took my energy, my focus and my money with it.
But nothing ever stopped me. I’m the queen of modifications. When something in my body didn’t work, I figured out another way to do it, and I’ve lived with an adapt-or-die mindset for most of my life. That’s also what makes me good at what I do: I’ve had to find the workaround for nearly every kind of pain and injury my clients walk in with.
Starting over in Tampa was another challenge. In South Florida I had decades of word of mouth and generations of families who knew my work. Here I had to build from scratch, and it was nowhere near as easy.
Every setback taught me something I now get to teach.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
For Love Of The Body™ helps people become their own healer by rebuilding trust with their body’s intelligence. I work with active people dealing with pain, injury and chronic illness who are tired of being told to push harder or just live with it.
What I’m known for is understanding fascia, the connective tissue that wraps every muscle, nerve and organ, and how the nervous system controls it. My core belief is that force is not healing. Your nervous system decides what your tissues are allowed to change, so regulation has to come before release. I’ve built that into my own methods, the ONA Method and the BOARDR Breath System.
My main offering now is one-on-one health and healing coaching. I start with real data, comprehensive blood work and microbiome testing, because I won’t guess about someone’s body. I also offer hands-on Fascial Evaluation & Alignment, in studio or as an out-call around Wesley Chapel, Lutz, Land O’ Lakes, Tampa and Odessa. That session is an evaluation, not a diagnosis, and it guides my coaching recommendations. Other offerings include The Dragonfly Day, a four-to-six-hour immersive healing experience, and Body Safe Home, an assessment that reduces the toxic load in your living space so your body has the conditions it needs to heal.
What sets me apart is 32 years of hands-on practice combined with lived experience. I’ve worked with professional athletes, and I’ve cared for five generations of South Florida families, including doctors, lawyers, psychologists and business owners. I’ve also spent nearly 30 years recovering from fluoroquinolone antibiotic damage myself. I don’t teach from theory. I teach what I’ve had to figure out in my own body.
What I’m most proud of is the trust. Clients have brought me their parents, their children and their grandchildren, and some of those families have been with me for decades.
So, before we go, how can our readers or others connect or collaborate with you? How can they support you?
Work with me: My main offering is one-on-one health and healing coaching, for people dealing with pain, injury or chronic illness who are ready to become their own healer. I also offer hands-on Fascial Evaluation & Alignment in studio or as an out-call around the Tampa Bay area, The Dragonfly Day immersive experience, and Body Safe Home assessments. The best place to start is forloveofthebody.com, or message me directly.
Collaborate with me: I’m stepping into speaking, teaching and writing. I’m available for podcasts, panels, workshops and wellness events on fascia, the nervous system, injury recovery and fluoroquinolone antibiotic safety. I’m also connecting with others in the fluoroquinolone informed-consent community to get this information to more people.
Support me: Follow along on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube [Instagram, @forloveofthebody, YouTube @forloveofthebody9356, TikTok @For.love.of.the.body], share my content with anyone who’s tired of being told to live with their pain, and leave a Google review if we’ve worked together. Word of mouth built my practice for 32 years, and it’s still the best gift you can give me.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.forloveofthebody.com/
- Instagram: @forloveofthebody
- Facebook: @forloveofthebody
- Youtube: @forloveofthebody9356
- Other: TikTok @for.love.of.the.body
