cfmail and text area question

I have a form that we use to enter the body text of an email into a text form very much like the form I am using to create this new post. What I can't figure out is how to keep the carriage returns in place when the text area content is sent using cfmail in the html part of the cfmail message? We've been manually adding break tags, but that's a pain.

I have tried adding wrap="hard" to the text area and also using <cfprocessingdirective suppresswhitespace="no"> around the cfmail tags, but the content of the text area shows up in the emails as one big paragraph.

Anyone know how to do this? Thanks