Level 1 · Awareness

SEE YOUR WHOLE LANDSCAPE.

Awareness is not a separate side system. It is Level 1 on every mountain: see reality, establish a useful baseline, then go deeper only where it belongs.

Nine-Mountain Awareness

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These same checkmarks appear in My Ascent and on each Mountain page. One system, one source of progress.

1 · See reality

Complete the core baseline.

Enough information to orient the climb without turning Awareness into a giant project.

2 · Use the right tool

Tests stay on their mountain.

Validated screens are used where appropriate; structured audits are used where a clinical score would mislead.

3 · Return to My Ascent

Choose what to climb next.

My Ascent brings the nine mountains back together with levels, XP, next steps, weather, and milestone rewards.

The Level 1 Awareness Map

Same level. Different mountain-specific work.

Mountain 1

Vitality

See your current physical reality without turning Awareness into an optimization project.

0/3 core

Core · do now

Tools · when relevant

Age- and risk-appropriate preventive exam and clinician-guided lab work when indicated.
STOP-BANG or another appropriate sleep-risk screen when sleep apnea risk is relevant.
Safe functional baseline for aerobic capacity, strength, mobility, balance, and movement tolerance.

Optional · go deeper

DEXA/body-composition testing only when it will change decisions.
Clinician-directed cardiometabolic, hormone, nutrient, or other testing when history or symptoms justify it.
Open full mountain →
Mountain 2

Mind

Observe thoughts, emotions, urges, triggers, coping, and behavior before trying to change them.

0/3 core

Core · do now

Tools · when relevant

PHQ-9 for depression symptoms.
GAD-7 for anxiety symptoms.
PC-PTSD-5 for trauma-related symptoms when relevant.
AUDIT-C and an appropriate drug-use screen when alcohol or other substance risk is relevant.

Optional · go deeper

Personality, strengths, values, emotional-regulation, and belief-pattern inventories for self-understanding rather than diagnosis.
Qualified evaluation when symptoms are severe, persistent, impairing, confusing, or create a safety concern.
Open full mountain →
Mountain 3

Relationships

See the actual health of your support system and your role inside it.

0/3 core

Core · do now

Tools · when relevant

Structured social-support inventory or validated perceived-social-support measure.
Attachment-tendency reflection used as education, not a fixed label.
Communication/conflict audit focused on criticism, defensiveness, withdrawal, listening, and repair.

Optional · go deeper

Stay with the core baseline unless deeper work is useful.

Open full mountain →
Mountain 4

Love & Intimacy

Clarify intentions, patterns, values, boundaries, compatibility needs, and current relationship health.

0/3 core

Core · do now

Tools · when relevant

Structured relationship-satisfaction or compatibility audit when currently partnered.
Attachment-pattern reflection as one lens among many, not destiny.
STI screening and sexual-health care based on sexual history, exposures, symptoms, and current medical guidance.

Optional · go deeper

Stay with the core baseline unless deeper work is useful.

Open full mountain →
Mountain 5

Career

Get objective about skills, fit, compensation, evidence, and the gap to the next role.

0/3 core

Core · do now

Tools · when relevant

O*NET Interest Profiler for career-interest exploration.
Skills and work-values inventories to compare strengths with preferred environments.
Structured target-role gap analysis: requirements versus demonstrated experience and missing skills.

Optional · go deeper

Stay with the core baseline unless deeper work is useful.

Open full mountain →
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Mountain 6

Finances

Replace financial fog with an accurate baseline.

0/3 core

Core · do now

Tools · when relevant

CFPB Financial Well-Being Scale for a standardized view of perceived financial security and freedom of choice.
Cash-flow and spending-pattern audit using actual transactions rather than memory.
Credit-report review and recurring-charge/subscription audit.

Optional · go deeper

Stay with the core baseline unless deeper work is useful.

Open full mountain →
Mountain 7

Identity & Presence

Examine self-story, values, appearance, communication, environment, and outside feedback.

0/3 core

Core · do now

Tools · when relevant

Values-clarification and integrity-gap review.
Big Five/IPIP-based personality assessment as a descriptive tool, not a fixed identity.
Trusted-person feedback: strengths, blind spots, and one observable change that would improve how you show up.

Optional · go deeper

Stay with the core baseline unless deeper work is useful.

Open full mountain →
Mountain 8

Spirituality

Clarify worldview, doubt, community, practice, meaning, and belief-behavior alignment.

0/3 core

Core · do now

Tools · when relevant

Meaning, spiritual well-being, and values-alignment reflections for self-understanding rather than ranking religions.
Tradition-specific teachings and practices presented in their own terms.
Spiritual-distress check-in when guilt, fear, isolation, loss of meaning, or community conflict affects daily life.

Optional · go deeper

Stay with the core baseline unless deeper work is useful.

Open full mountain →
Mountain 9

Purpose

Connect strengths, values, lived experience, contribution, and direction without forcing certainty.

0/3 core

Core · do now

Tools · when relevant

Purpose-and-values alignment inventory: what matters, what you do, and where they diverge.
Strengths + interests + needs-of-others intersection rather than a single calling score.
Life-satisfaction/flourishing reflection to identify where meaning is present or missing.

Optional · go deeper

Stay with the core baseline unless deeper work is useful.

Open full mountain →

Next

Return to the command center.

Awareness gives you the map. My Ascent shows the whole range, your current levels, next actions, progress, and earned level-up celebrations.

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