Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing™ proudly endorse and recommend The Lift Project. We encourage our communities to explore this Australian wellbeing initiative created by Dr. Darren Morton, whose work helped inspire Nathanael’s commitment to making practical support for flourishing available to more people.

The moment Nathanael took to heart

With gratitude to Dr. Darren Morton and The Lift Project in Australia. At the conclusion of the 2025 Lifestyle Medicine conference, I sat front and center and took his message to heart. My response was immediate: “We have to start dispersing parachutes to everyone immediately.” That conviction helped shape Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing™ and informs the spirit of The Book of Flight: sharing hope, connection, and practical support so others can rise.

We have to start dispersing parachutes to everyone immediately.

Nathanael Elijah Smith — recalling his response to Dr. Darren Morton’s message at the conclusion of the 2025 Lifestyle Medicine conference

For Nathanael, those parachutes represent practical tools, human connection, encouragement, and support that people can use when life becomes difficult. He took the message to heart: bring help into people’s hands and begin sharing it now.

An influence on Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing™

That experience contributed to the development and direction of Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing™. It reinforced Nathanael’s conviction that education, compassionate nursing, community, and everyday opportunities to flourish should reach people where they are. The Lift Project is one of the influences he gratefully acknowledges in that work.

Sharing those parachutes became a call to action: help people access hope, connection, and practical support through Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing™.

Explore The Lift Project

The Lift Project describes its mission as lifting lives through engaging, evidence-based wellbeing education. Learn about the program, its team, and its research directly from its official website.

Visit The Lift Project → · Meet Dr. Darren Morton and learn about the mission

This is our endorsement of The Lift Project. It does not indicate an endorsement of Kitchen Monk™, Flourishing Nursing™, or Nathanael’s books by Dr. Morton or The Lift Project. The conference account is Nathanael’s personal recollection; the parachute statement above is his own response.