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Practical help to eat well and flourish.

🎖️ Grandpa Ken · In loving memory

Wood Be Remembered · Our official apparel & merchandise partner. Selected plant-inspired gifts, nursing designs and keepsakes.

All purchase proceeds go to May’s business. We receive no commission.

Meet May Mac: Our Official Merchandise Partner — Supporting Her With No Commission

Wood Be Remembered is the official apparel and merchandise partner of Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing™. I am delighted to introduce more people to owner and creator May Mac and to help her business flourish.

I met May at the 2025 California Avocado Festival in Carpinteria, California. Since then, attendees I connected with at the 2025 American College of Lifestyle Medicine conference in Dallas, Texas 🤠, the American Holistic Nurses Association conference in Niagara Falls, New York 💦, and the Plantrician Power of the Plate conference in San Diego, California 🌴 have tremendously loved her pins. We keep requesting more!

This is my personal account of attendees’ reactions, rather than an institutional endorsement by those organizations.

Gifts that fit our flourishing values

Our selected collections feature plant-inspired designs, nursing appreciation, pets and personalized keepsakes. We exclude alcohol-themed merchandise and animal-based food imagery, and leave out food designs whose ingredients we cannot verify as plant-based. May’s wider store may carry other products.

Let's Avocuddle Wood Pin — Wood Be Remembered
Let’s Avocuddle Wood Pin · Wood Be Remembered / May Mac

Support May directly

Purchases are paid directly to Wood Be Remembered. All purchase proceeds go to May’s business; Nathanael, Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing™ receive no commission.

Choose a featured product to buy directly from May, share our selected gift collections with a friend, or ask May about team gifts and personalization. For apparel and possible co-branded products, please contact May for current options before planning an order.

May, please never, ever stop creating. We will support you forever.

— Nathanael Elijah Smith, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, DipACLM
Founder, Kitchen Monk™ & Flourishing Nursing™

A joyful conference memory — celebrating May’s creativity

This Instagram post is part of my celebration of May Mac and Wood Be Remembered: the creative work I am proud to endorse, the happiness her pins brought to conference attendees I met, and the connection that began at the 2025 California Avocado Festival in Carpinteria.

A personal Instagram memory shared by Nathanael in celebration of Wood Be Remembered.

“May, I wholeheartedly endorse your creativity and the selected apparel, gifts and merchandise we celebrate through Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing™. Your pins brought so much happiness to attendees I connected with at the 2025 American College of Lifestyle Medicine conference in Dallas, Texas 🤠, the American Holistic Nurses Association conference in Niagara Falls, New York 💦, and the Plantrician Power of the Plate conference in San Diego, California 🌴. We keep requesting more!

Please never, ever stop creating. We will support you forever.”

— Nathanael Elijah Smith, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, DipACLM

This is Nathanael’s personal endorsement and account of attendees’ reactions. It does not imply endorsement by the conference organizations. Our featured merchandise excludes alcohol themes and animal-based food imagery. Ask May about current apparel and ordering options.

All purchase proceeds go to May’s business. Nathanael, Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing™ receive no commission.

🎬 More healthy cooking videos

🎬 Chef Robin Jeep videos 🌿

📌 1. Start here: Chef Robin Jeep with Nurse Jane Esselstyn, RN, and her mother, Ann Crile Esselstyn 💪

▶️ Tap play to watch with sound. Always our first pick. ⏭️ When it ends, more of this chef’s videos play next.

🔄 2. Then: Enliven Foods’ newest videos

▶️ Newest first, then older ones play automatically. Updates on its own.

Videos from Enliven Foods’ official YouTube channel (Chef Robin Jeep’s company); they play from YouTube.

🌍 Explore National Health Association travel & contacts
🌿 Explore National Health Association education & videos

🌿 Our primary educational resource: National Health Association

🥕 Kitchen Monk™ proudly recommends exploring the National Health Association’s free recipes, conversations, learning, and plant-based travel. Start with a free resource, watch a conversation, or ask Lisa or Wanda about travel.

▶️ Watch National Health Association videos here
▶️ Tap play to watch with sound; it never starts on its own. Browse the channel’s uploads; availability and playback order are controlled by YouTube.

📡 Browse National Health Association videos and check the official channel for live events.

Our independent recommendation. No National Health Association endorsement or formal partnership is implied. Some resources require membership or payment; travel is purchased separately.

🌍 Explore National Health Association Plant-Based Travel

🚢 Cruise travel

Lisa McCarl
National Health Association Travel Coordinator and Advisor
Coordinates National Health Association Cruise Travel

📧 lisa.mccarl@gmail.com

🌿 Land travel

Wanda Huberman
Executive Director, National Health Association
Land travel contact

📧 whuberman@healthscience.org

☎️ 330-953-1002 is the National Health Association general office, not a direct line for Lisa or Wanda. Kitchen Monk™ shares National Health Association travel as an independent external resource; we are not affiliated with the National Health Association and earn nothing from these links. Follow the official trip listing for current information and booking instructions. Contacts checked October 17, 2026.

🌺 #Ohana · Nathanael’s favorite lifestyle medicine teacher

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“…challenging us to carry the light forward.”

🍎 Mrs. Barbara Weaver · Amazon review of The Book of the Lamp
🌲 Flourishing EVERgreen Guardian™ of the Pacific Northwest
🩺 Chief Flourishing Lifestyle Medicine Patient Representative™
🤝 Chief Flourishing Community Belonging Guardian™

Our golden lamp: in loving memory of Grandpa Kenneth and Grandma Carolyn Smith