American College of Lifestyle Medicine · Learning, connection, and everyday healthy living
Welcome to Kitchen 🪷 Monk™’s American College of Lifestyle Medicine resource guide. Explore official education, practical resources, videos, and the annual conference, then choose a next step that fits your interests and your life. We are grateful for everyone who brings curiosity, compassion, and a willingness to help our world heal and flourish.
🌿 Six areas for learning and reflection
ACLM’s six lifestyle medicine pillars address nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, social connection, and avoiding risky substances. These subjects can help us ask practical questions about daily routines, available support, and the next step a person feels ready to consider.
Kitchen Monk’s own Nine Gardens of Flourishing offer our community another way to organize learning: Nutrition, Movement, Sleep, Mindfulness, Relationships, Purpose, Community, Global Impact, and Faith & Compassion. We invite you to explore with kindness toward yourself and others.
🎥 Watch and listen: official ACLM videos
Select the video to watch, open the playlist for more, or browse the latest uploads below. YouTube controls let you pause, choose captions where available, and open the video directly on YouTube.
Open ACLM’s official YouTube channel · Browse the official playlist
Latest official uploads
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🥗 Learning that can begin in the kitchen
The free second edition of ACLM’s Culinary Medicine Curriculum provides nine sessions. Access requires an account and survey. Explore the official page for the materials and current participation details, and connect what interests you with Kitchen Monk’s recipes, food preparation, and community learning.
For additional courses and resources, visit the official ACLM Learning Center or our Learning Orchard guide. Course audiences, prices, credits, and enrollment requirements vary by offering.
💻 Annual conference: learn together, then keep going
Our annual conference page brings together the current online offering, official registration links, costs, learning benefits, nursing education and the next announced conference. Bookmark that page for confirmed updates. 💻 #ACLM #LifestyleMedicine #LearnTogether
ACLM describes the audience as professionals across healthcare and beyond. Its official registration options include nonmember registration. Check the organizer’s audience and registration information for your circumstances; our Kitchen Monk community warmly welcomes clinicians, non-clinicians, families, and community members.
🌍 #KitchenMonk #NursesLead #NurseCoaching #GlobalNursing #HealthyCommunities
🩺 Celebrating Dr. Karen Laing and Lifestyle Nursing through INCA
Dr. Karen Laing has been elected as an ACLM Director At-Large. Her official INCA profile lists DNP, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, DipACLM, HWNC-BC, CHES, FPCNA and also describes board certification in holistic nursing and nurse coaching. She is an advanced practice nurse who is also board-certified in holistic nursing and health and wellness nurse coaching.
Her course, Lifestyle Nursing: A Lifestyle Medicine Framework for Nurses, is offered through the Integrative Nurse Coach® Academy. It offers focused learning after the broader conference experience: 12 online modules, 92.5 nursing contact hours, and published standalone tuition of $1,295. INCA’s specialty-program admissions guidance includes RNs, APRNs, LPNs, LVNs, and CNAs.
Read our detailed guide to Dr. Laing’s course, credentials, curriculum, study format, tuition, and enrollment terms. See her official INCA biography and INCA Admissions for provider information.
🌿 #LifestyleNursing #INCA #CNA #LPN #LVN #RN #APRN #NursePractitioners
🥷 Official Flourishing Nurse Ninja™ recognition
Flourishing Nursing™ recognizes anyone who completes both their LM2026 Online learning and INCA’s Lifestyle Nursing course requirements as an Official Flourishing Nurse Ninja™. We celebrate the commitment to continued learning, listening, compassionate service, and helping people flourish. Keep your conference participation records and INCA completion documentation.
This honorary recognition belongs to our independent Flourishing Nursing community. Use it alongside your actual professional role and credentials. It does not award nursing licensure, board certification, additional practice authority, or a credential from ACLM or INCA. Provider participation requirements and professional scope continue to apply.
Explore the two-part learning pathway and its benefits.
🌍 Healthy communities and Blue Zones
The Blue Zones–ACLM partnership connects clinical lifestyle medicine with community well-being. That relationship encourages our own vision of nurses, nurse coaches, families, and neighbors helping put useful learning into everyday practice. Kitchen Monk and Flourishing Nursing share these resources independently; the official organizations speak for their own programs.
We also continue to recommend the National Health Association and other useful educational resources. Explore what fits your learning goals and circumstances.
💚 #BlueZones #ConnectAndFlourish #Compassion #FlourishingNursing #HelpHumanityFlourish
🪔 Carry the light
Thank you, Florence Nightingale, and thank you to everyone carrying compassion into the world. Rooted in faith and compassion, our welcome extends to people of every faith and no faith. Let us keep learning, connecting, and helping humanity flourish.
Nathanael Elijah Smith, FNP-C, DipACLM
Founder & Chief Flourishing Connector
Your Flourishing Nurse Ninja 🥷🌿🩺
Nursed to Flourish. Carry the Light. Protect Life. Help Humanity Flourish.
Program details reviewed October 19, 2026. Official provider pages govern current availability, prices, enrollment, and credit requirements.
