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Practical help to eat well and flourish.

🎖️ Grandpa Ken · In loving memory

The Book of the Lamp — Read free with Kindle Unlimited · Kindle eBook: $0.99 · Paperback: $5.75.

🗺️ Put Your Light on the Map

See where the flourishing movement is growing.

✨ Every light represents someone who believes healthcare can become more connected, compassionate, community-centered, preventive, and rooted in flourishing. Patients. Nurses. Clinicians. Coaches. Chefs. Educators. Students. Community leaders. Organizations. Neighbors.

🌎 Looking for care or a flourishing team? Our shared directory now lives on the Care & Team Pathway (Flourishing Map). To ask for a team where you live, use 🌱 Request a Team Near Me, so your request is counted in one place.

🌍 Our American and global heat maps are open on Flourishing Nursing. The shared patient and clinician forms live there too. Each consented submission is added to an anonymous area count, and an area shows a range once it reaches 10 in 90 days.

Find support or help a team grow

One connected service: both websites lead to the same American and worldwide maps and shared signup forms. Patient and clinician interest is shown as anonymous ranges over 90 days; totals below 10 stay private. A successful signup may not change the color yet. Clinician applications are separate from reviewed public care listings.

On the American directory, open More filters to search by profession, language, telehealth, confirmed availability, and verified insurance information. Each map also offers a state or country selector and a table so you can explore without relying on colors. A status line shows when the map data was last checked.

💡 Lights on the Map

🎯 Explore anonymous patient and clinician interest ranges on our heat maps. Counts cover the past 90 days; fewer than 10 submissions remain private. No area has reached 10 yet, so every area still looks neutral. Be one of the first lights: request a team or join below. 🕯️

🌲 When the map glows, Kitchen Monk turns EVERgreen.

🚶 Move With a Nurse™ on the Map

The map will include a layer for Move With a Nurse™, our nurse-led community movement. Each location will carry a clear status:

  • 🟢 Active: regular gatherings are happening.
  • 🟡 Launching: a leader and date are set.
  • 🔵 Seeking a Nurse Leader: the community is ready and needs a nurse (or a physical therapist or other qualified professional).
  • ⚪ Interested Community: people here want it; help us start.

🏞️ Community movement resources, too: accessible trails, walking paths, parks, bike routes and shops, public pools and aquatic centers, tennis and pickleball courts, community gardens, school tracks, recreation departments, Young Men’s Christian Association and Young Women’s Christian Association locations, senior and community centers, adaptive sports and recreation programs, and physical therapy partners. The map should be useful even where Kitchen Monk doesn’t run anything yet.

No Move With a Nurse™ locations are active yet. Want one near you? Tick “Movement groups” in the Request a Team form. Want to lead one? Choose “Movement or fitness professional” (or your nursing role) in the role buttons below.


🔒 Your Privacy Matters

Kitchen Monk does not display your name, email address, phone number, or exact location on any public map. The shared forms on Flourishing Nursing ask for your country (and state, if you live in the United States) for the heat maps, plus a city or ZIP code so we know where teams are wanted. The maps show only combined ranges by country or United States state, and an area stays neutral until it reaches 10 consented submissions in 90 days. Form messages go to Chief Flourishing Chef Robin Jeep at rfjeep@gmail.com and are stored privately in our WordPress account.

⚠️ Please do not share medical records, diagnoses, medications, or other private health information in any map form. You must be 18 or older to join. To update or remove your information at any time, email rfjeep@gmail.com and we will take care of it.

🕯️ Join the map

🇺🇸 Add your area to the American and global heat maps

Community members, patients, clinicians and team builders use one shared map. Each button below opens a form on Flourishing Nursing. When you tick the map-consent box, your submission is added automatically to an anonymous country count (and a United States state count) that the heat maps show as a range once an area reaches 10 in 90 days. Chief Flourishing Chef Robin Jeep receives form notifications at rfjeep@gmail.com. Personal details stay private; professional care profiles are reviewed by a person and published only with your written approval.

Find your pathway

Patients, families, and caregivers can request local support. Team members can select a role below to open the shared private application with that role selected.

Choose your participation pathway: licensed clinical practice; clinical support or coaching; student or educator; volunteer or community member; organization or team builder. Your role button opens the shared application with a suggested pathway, which you can change. Clinical titles require the appropriate credentials; community roles do not confer a professional license.

🌿 Nursing team

🩺 Medical, behavioral, and oral health

🥗 Nutrition, rehabilitation, and allied health

🤝 Coaching, education, and community

Real Places. Real People. A Kinder World.

🌱 Not ready to join the map yet? Find your first step instead.


📣 Explore Kitchen Monk

Created by Flourishing Nurse Ninja Nathanael Elijah Smith, FNP-C, DipACLM · Last reviewed October 29, 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