We’re Erin and Hakim Kassam, parents of four curious girls. We run a nutrition and coaching business, home educate and travel as often as we can. Over the past 13 years we’ve been working and educating from our home—but our next phase is just beginning. The purpose of our blog is to share the story…
Tracking your results helps you manage them and feel better faster. If you are more aware of your results, you may be able to better manage your lifestyle choices, make informed health decisions, and prevent or avoid triggers. Scale results are helpful, but they are one dimensional, often inaccurate and certainly don’t tell a complete story….
Did you know that there is a drug that 85% of us use every single day? If you’re one of them, we have a little assignment for you. No, we are not going to ask you to quit. It’s caffeine, and we use it to get going in the morning, power through workouts or work, and…
Total wellness is more than just physical well being. Total wellness is experiencing well being in every aspect of life, including jobs or career, finances and relationships. Many people experience stress in their relationships due to difficult situations or a lack of a fulfilling and satisfying job or career. Frequently when financial situations improve, relationships…
It’s past the halfway mark of January, about the time when new year resolutions are starting to dwindle….are yours? We would challenge you to revisit all those things you had decided to improve and/or change and make a word swap. Instead of “I want to…” or “I am going to…”, try this on: “I commit…
Our new city, for the remainder of our European adventure, was Sanary Sur Mer. The decision to come back to the south did not disappoint. Once again we found a sizeable apartment overlooking the Sea and walkable distance to the daily marché and beach. This area was getting some unusual rain, so it looked like…
I have to say, we were not sad about leaving Rome. Since arriving in Genova, we felt a sense of anxiety and pressure and although the sites were the most amazing things to see, with so much history and obvious culture, we were not in a state of relaxing for sure. Our last main stop…
Onto my most anticipated cities–Pompeii. We had learned about Pompeii last year and we’re excited to see it come alive. And alive it did! Along with Pisa, this was my other most favourite site we saw in Italy. Pompeii is not just a few blocks of ruins, it is immense in size and nearly completely…
Getting to Rome was easier than we thought it would be and we were anxious to get out and explore. We made camp a bit north of the city center, but still about 10-15 minutes from all the main events. What was most striking is that driving through the city, ruins were everywhere. And then,…
We both begrudgingly and excitedly left Nice for Italy. Ten minutes into the drive, we were there! It’s a funny thing that two countries, exactly right next to each other, with similar roots, can be so different–and so different so fast. Already, the highways were different. Instead of winding along the coastway, causing even the…
I didn’t know how much we would end up enjoying the south of France until we had to leave. It is a retirement dream destination after all, I should have known! We stayed in Hyères, a lively city just east of Toulon, which is east to Marseille (mar say), which is south to Paris by…
