Have you ever felt disempowered

in your healthcare journey?

"This book is a profoundly important body of work
that offers
 an expansive understanding
of what healing can look like.

I would even say
it has the potential to
radically change the way humanity orients itself
around health, healing, and well-being."  

Vanessa Owen, MDiv
Sr. Research Services, Dept. of Family Medicine, CU Medicine
Hospice & Pediatric Trauma Chaplain,
Children’s Hospital Colorado


One of the greatest sources of suffering
for those experiencing chronic conditions
comes from feeling invalidated, shamed,
or blamed for the condition.

Unfortunately, this is a far too common theme among many in
a healthcare system that prioritizes profit over people.

What if there was a way for you to
have increased wellness and less suffering, plus be an empowered co-creator of your healthcare experiences?

We Choose Love is an invitation to redefine your relationship to healing by interweaving leading-edge, evidence-based research and ancient spiritual understandings into a journey that is nothing short of a radical awakening.

She offers a roadmap that meets you where you are at, uplifting you each step along the path of your wellness journey.

Are you ready to
bring relief to your suffering & feel confident & empowered in your healing experience?

“… the new paradigm of healing and patient care must be one of listening, believing, and joining patients on their searches for wellness.

What I believe Kristen offers in this book is
a set of tools one can lean on again and again as they learn to live a fuller life just as they are.”

from foreword
by Emily Cashwell, PHD

This book is for you if

any of the below statements are true…

  • you have been “written off” in your healthcare experience

  • hearing “you don’t look sick” or “it’s all in your head” are familiar phrases

  • You have received an array of lab tests & been told “everything is fine,” yet you know you do not feel fine

  • self-doubt has you questioning whether you feel the way you feel

  • you think “I don’t want to be a burden” & have difficulty asking for & receiving help

  • you wonder “why am I not getting better faster”

  • hearing debilitating voices of self-shaming/blaming is familiar

  • the amount of suffering you experience outweighs the joy

  • you want to heal & you don’t know how

  • you are afraid you may “feel this way forever”

  • you are open to a different way of perceiving the body & healing

you also may…

  • notice unhealthy relationship patterns that happen again & again

  • have intimacy challenges that limit your capacity to receive pleasure

  • look to others to fix or save you

  • have a lack of trust in others or yourself

  • “We Choose Love invites the reader to deepen their level of intimacy with themselves by weaving spirituality, cutting-edge research, ancient wisdom, and deep listening. This is a nourishing love letter to the soul that inspires all who read it.”

    MARLA MATTENSON - MA

    Founder & CEO Ethical Sales Institute

  • “Kristen guides us on a heart-centered journey that incorporates ancient wisdom, practical and empowering strategies, and real-life, modern miracles of healing through adversity. A highly recommended reading for anyone unwilling to give up hope during challenging times.”

    DR. CARLOS SANTO - NMD

    Core Faculty, Department of Mind-Body Medicine
    Saybrook University

  • “Kristen D’Amato presents a framework of mind-body wellness to inspire greater awareness, emotional balance, and connection toward oneself and others while living with chronic conditions. We Choose Love offers insights into healing pathways by introducing philosophy, science, personal vignettes, simple assessment tools, and self-care practices. Readers are invited to reflect, assess, and explore different facets of their lifestyle in ways that are meaningful to them.”

    DEVORAH CURTIS, PHD

    Department Chair, Mind-Body Medicine
    Saybrook University

  • “We Choose Love speaks directly to the soul and has real potential to change people’s lives. Within one month, I was eating com- pletely plant-based, had come off medications I had been taking for years, and was no longer experiencing uncomfortable physical symptoms that had been impacting my daily life for a very long time. Emotionally, I felt clearer and freer than I ever remembered feeling. Changes began to occur that I had dreamed about but hadn’t been able to envision actualizing."

    VANESSA OWEN, MDIV

    Sr. Research Services, Dept. of Family Medicine UC School of Medicine

    Hospice & Pediatric Trauma Chaplain, Children’s Hospital Colorado

  • "As we continue to navigate the collective traumas of the triple pandemics, it is beneficial to ground oneself in love. The constantly changing conditions of our times and their intrinsic edge states invite the reader to explore balance, mind-body connection, and well-being through practices curated with love by author Kristen D'Amato."

    DR. GINA BELTON

    Mentor. Teacher. Ancestor. End of life Midwifery President, APA Division 32