🌍 Nurses and friends of nursing, worldwide
The Flourishing Nursing Network
People and organizations we learn from, all in one place. Follow them, share their work, and help keep the lamp on.
🤝 Meet the humans behind the movement
Find people. Discover their work. Learn together. Connect with purpose.
Connection is one of the six pillars of lifestyle medicine, according to the American College of Lifestyle Medicine ↗. Every person on this page comes with their own buttons, so you never have to search for them. Tap a logo to see their work.
A follow button is an invitation, not a friendship. Real connection grows when people talk, help each other, and show up, online or in person. Looking for your own people? Try our free community or I feel alone. Nurses: the evidence behind this network ↗
🌱 Who’s here: everyone we honor or recommend across Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing. Each person’s relationship to us is labeled. Unless it says “Collaborator,” being listed is recognition only: not membership, partnership, or endorsement. Icons are labeled when an account belongs to an organization rather than the person. We share only public professional links. Listed and want a change? Tell us and we’ll update or remove it.
🛡 Flourishing Guardians
Meryl Fury, MS, RN
Relationship: close nursing friend; Kitchen Monk’s Chief Flourishing Guardian (a Kitchen Monk honor, not an endorsement). President & CEO of Plant Based Support; leads the Plant Based Nutrition Movement and 6 Million SEEDS. Her page →
Chef Robin Jeep
Relationship: Collaborator; co-author of The Book of the Garden: The Cup of Flourishing; Flourishing Guardian. Culinary educator and co-founder of Enliven Foods. Her page →
Chef AJ · Culinary SHERO
Relationship: person whose work we learn from. Chef, author, and host who has spent decades making plant-based cooking quick, easy, and joyful. “Culinary SHERO” is a ceremonial Kitchen Monk recognition, not a nursing title. Her shout-out →
🩺 Nurse leaders
Relationship for everyone in this section: featured educators whose public work we learn from. Not affiliated with us unless stated.
Karen Laing, DNP, APRN, DipACLM
Nurse practitioner and nurse coach, newly elected to the ACLM Board of Directors (2026–2029).
Deborah Chielli, MSN, APRN, FACLM
Lifestyle medicine nurse practitioner, Food for Life instructor, and textbook author.
Janine Santora, MSN, APRN, FNP-C
Neuroscience nurse practitioner, stroke-prevention advocate, and textbook author.
Karla Rodriguez, DNP, RN, DipACLM
NYU nursing professor who teaches a lifestyle medicine elective.
Krista Dewar, DNP, ARNP, FNP-C
Family nurse practitioner and owner of Lifestyle Health and Wellness.
Nurse Blake (Blake Lynch, BSN, RN)
Nurse, comedian, and author of Code Calm, a guide to nurse well-being.
LaTaya De Jesus, DNP, APRN, DipACLM
Founder of Eden Health Restored and author of Faith Forward.
Joanne Evans, Tammy Robertson, Cody Stubbe & Caroline Trapp
Nurse leaders in plant-based nutrition education. Their shared organizational link is below; we are verifying each person’s own professional links and will add them individually.
Kelly Freeman, MSN, AGPCNP-BC, DipACLM, FACLM · our official flourishing nurse Florence Nightingale. Indiana Lifestyle Medicine Network ↗
See every lifestyle medicine nurse we honor, with all their public links, on Flourishing Nursing →
👩⚕️ Physicians, mentors & teachers
Dr. Yami Cazorla-Lancaster · Nourish Wellness
Relationship: recommended practice; person whose work we learn from. Pediatrician and lifestyle medicine physician in Yakima, Washington; host of the I AM HUMAN podcast. Her page →
Dr. Michael Greger, FACLM · NutritionFacts.org
Relationship: free resource we learn from. Science-based nutrition videos and articles, and Kitchen Monk’s Red Light, Green Light inspiration. Free resources →
Dr. Darren Morton · The Lift Project
Relationship: independent program we recommend (no partnership). Evidence-based mental well-being program from Avondale University. Feel Better, Eat Better →
With gratitude: Dr. Ron Weiss (former mentor; not an endorser) and Dr. Michelle Thompson (mentor). See all our Mentors Who Lit the Way →
🥕 Coaches & food friends
Independent businesses and coaches we recommend. We receive no payment.
🏛 Organizations
🪔 Founder & Kitchen Monk
💌 Update, correct, add, or remove
Listed here? You can update your profile, correct information, add an official public professional link, ask to participate, or ask to be removed. Nurses anywhere in the world are welcome to be added, with permission.
Public professional links only, last verified September 2026; accounts can change. Everyone listed is independent and is not affiliated with Kitchen Monk™, Flourishing Nursing, or ACFN unless labeled “Collaborator,” and has not endorsed them. Ceremonial recognitions (such as Flourishing Guardian or Culinary SHERO) are Kitchen Monk honors, not professional titles or credentials. We earn nothing from any link on this page.
