Cheryl Townsley
Naturopath • Author • Wisdom Coach • Cofounder of Lifestyle for Health
For more than thirty-five years, Cheryl Townsley has helped people discover that better health doesn’t have to begin with complicated programs or impossible expectations. Her passion has always been to make health understandable, practical, and achievable, giving people the confidence to take meaningful steps toward lasting change.
That passion grew out of personal experience. In 1990, after experiencing a severe health crisis that included postpartum depression, Cheryl found herself searching for answers that conventional approaches had not provided. Through nutrition, lifestyle changes, and a deeper understanding of how the body was designed to heal, she experienced a life-changing transformation that inspired her to dedicate her life to helping others.
Leaving behind a successful career in business and information technology, Cheryl founded Lifestyle for Health with a simple mission: to educate, encourage, and empower people to take ownership of their health. Since then, she has worked with tens of thousands of individuals around the world through coaching, education, books, seminars, television, radio, and online programs.
What makes Cheryl’s approach different is her ability to simplify complex health topics into practical, everyday actions. Rather than overwhelming people with information, she focuses on helping them understand why the body works the way it does and how small, consistent changes often produce the greatest long-term results.
Along the way, Cheryl learned another valuable lesson. Helping others is important, but living the message matters just as much. As she stepped back from full-time clinical practice to focus on restoring her own health, she gained an even deeper appreciation for balance, sustainability, and the importance of caring for yourself while serving others. That perspective continues to shape everything she teaches today.
Today, Cheryl serves as cofounder of Lifestyle for Health alongside Forest Townsley. Together they provide education, community, and practical resources designed to help people improve their health naturally and confidently. Whether through articles, videos, speaking engagements, or online education, Cheryl remains committed to helping others understand that lasting health begins with knowledge, encouragement, and simple steps that fit real life.
Professional Experience & Credentials
Authored Books & Curriculum:
- Discovering Wholeness: The Spirit, Soul and Body Connection
- Color Me Trim: Emotional Roots to Weight Loss
- Food Puzzle: A Customized Exercise & Eating Plan
- Food Smart: Eat Your Way to Better Health
- Body by Design: Defining and Re Creating You for Optimal Performance
- Lifestyle for Health Cookbook: Smart Cooking for Busy People
- Meals in 30 Minutes: Best Foods for the Best You
- Return to Paradise: A Biblical Foundation for Health
- Kid Smart: Raising Healthy Children
- Healthy Giving: Giving the Old Fashioned Way, From the Heart
- Living W.H.O.L.E.: Lose Excess Weight Never to Find it Again
- Cleansing Made Simple
- Candida Made Simple
- Power of Being Healthy
- Too Stressed to be Blessed
- Raging Hormones Breakthrough
- Now Cooking for Life Cookbook
- Chocolate and Everything Else Cookbook
- Beyond Goal Setting to REAL Results: Interrupting the Dishonor Loop that Disconnects You from Prospering
- Discover Your Values: Helping You Discover Your True Values That Motivate You to Prosper
- Aha! Mentoring: Stop the Looping by Getting Your “Aha!”
- More than Enough: More than Enough Time, Finances and Relationships
- Bach Flower Remedies to the Rescue: Understanding the Impact of Emotions on Health
- Your Best 24 Hour Day: Connecting Essential Oils, Flower Essences and Nutrition to the Organs of the 24 Hour Body Clock
- The Easy Approach: A monthly membership program to coach, teach, and encourage you on your health journey.
- From Overwhelm to Easy: Overwhelm and hard are the foundation to failure. Easy is the key to success.
- Balancing Hormones the Easy Way: Out of balance hormones are a challenge for many. Easy steps to happy hormones.
- The Inflammation Breakthrough Program: A 30 day program for removing or reducing inflammation from your gut.
- Overcome Cravings and Stop the “Melt Downs!”: Simple strategies to remove cravings from your life.
- Your Brain… Made Easy: It’s time for your brain to work for you instead of against you.
Professional Education:
2009 Inscape Publishing DiSC Training Certification
2002 Energetix College of Advanced Bioelectric Training, Bioenergetic Practitioner 2002 Loomis Institute, Digestive Specialist
2001 International School of Bioenergetic Medicine, Bioenergetic Practitioner 2001 Trinity College, ND, Naturopath, Master Herbalist
1994 Southern Illinois University, Post Graduate study in Business Administration and Marketing 1977 Washburn University, BBA in Business Administration and Computer Science
1974 Washburn University, BA in Education and Nutrition Professional Career
1990 – Present Lifestyle for Health Wellness Center, Wellness Center Director and Naturopathic Practitioner, Author, Speaker, Executive Coach, Media Guest and Host (Lifestyle for Health Television Show), Denver, CO
1984 – 1989 Compass Concepts, President and CEO Business Development Consultant, Denver, CO
1980 – 1984 Tymshare Computer Services Inc., National Product Manager, National Sales Representative, Application Consultant, Denver, CO, and St. Louis, MO
1978 – 1979 Southwestern Bell, Real-Time Communications Technician, Kansas City, MO 1975 – 1978 The Designer, Tailoring and Dress Design Topeka, KS
1974 – 1975 Tecumseh Middle School, Teacher Topeka, KS