Following the path to happiness and one fulfilled life. Not that there is any particular destination, but when you’ve chosen the right setting and show up intent on being fully immersed in the experience, then when you find your heart glowing and content, you know you’ve arrived.
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Here at Upward Slopes, my primary focus is to help you take action to better support your metabolic health. What is metabolic health? Metabolism is, in a very general sense, a concept that encompasses biochemical reactions. When it comes to the metabolic health of an individual, I am referring to the ability of the human
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Brief Recap – The Challenge (feel free to skip this section if coming directly from Part 1) Our modern human population is in a rather horrendous state of health – one that is driven, largely, by the same underlying behavioral factors: poor diet sedentary behavior chronic stress This is something we can all understand, but
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Last year – early 2020 – I, along with the rest of the world, was hit with a hard realization: that a single virus had the power to overturn our world and threaten the lives of far too many. It was unexpected. It took us all off guard. What’s interesting, though, is that it was
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Each of us individuals is on our own particular set of journeys. These journeys – they differ tremendously in regard to how much effort is required, what type of effort that is, and what is at stake. Still, the tale of completing a journey follows similar themes, and it is to one particular theme that
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Here at Upward Slopes, our intention is to embrace each day by making the healthiest decisions possible – whatever that means for each of us at any point in time. To do this, we call upon a holistic (or in engineering terms, systems-based) approach – one that addresses the health of the entire body while
Note: This article was initially published as “A Lesson from the Mountains” over on my Your Health, Reprogrammed website in July 2020. This post came from an experience I had climbing one of my favorite peaks. I published it over there as the ideas for Upward Slopes were brewing in my mind but before Upward
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Rhoda The moment I turned into Spencer Basin earlier that morning, my eyes had set sight on a beautiful peak. Although, this one was shaped less like a peak and more like a wide tabletop. Leading up to it was one hell of a ridgeline, with the long runway leading up to the peak –
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I don’t like being shut down by an obstacle. It stabs at the ego. So every time I fail to conquer the obstacle in front of me, I’m left with an unsettled feeling. Could I have tried harder? Could I have been smarter? It’s easy to get sucked into these thoughts. It’s easy to be
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Making healthy decisions can be a real challenge, especially when it comes to making dietary decisions. The pieces to this challenge are plenty, including the sheer amount of information out there, much of which is riddled with poor quality science (or no attempt to pull in any science at all). To overcome this challenge, I
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