Hiker Hounds NI

24/02/2025

Workshop Taster sessions!!
First one 13th March 6.30pm for 2 hours
Try out our Art of Pain Relief course in these short taster sessions, before we launch the full 4 session courses.
Paul has many years of experience as a health consultant and will guide you through mindfulness techniques and visuals that can be used as coping mechanisms for long term pain.
While Gem shows you how to use these tools alongside uncovering your creative side!

Please check out the website link in bio for booking! Limited spaces available.

https://www.healthierself.net/product-page/art-of-pain-relief-workshop

20/02/2025

Workshop Taster sessions!!
First one 13th March 6.30pm for 2 hours at Cindy’s cafe Bangor.

Try out our Art of Pain Relief course in a condensed taster session before we launch the full 4 session course later this year.

Paul has many years of experience as a health consultant and will guide you through mindfulness techniques and visuals that can be used as coping mechanisms for long term pain.
While Gem shows you how to use this alongside creativity.

Please check out the website link, or contact HealthierSelf for booking and info! Limited spaces available.

https://www.healthierself.net

(I rarely use this page lately while still on treatment,
so incase I miss any messages please contact via the healthierself website and any shares help massively! Thank you so much 💜
ps. I am now on Instagram 💃🐾)

17/01/2025

Please check out this exciting new project I am delighted to be a part of! More info and workshops to come soon! 🎨💃

It’s been a while in the making. Gemma and I have been busy: designing, developing and creating our new Programme - Art of Pain Relief.

For those on Instagram there's a link in the comments and you can meet Gemma there.

So yes, we’re now ready to go.

More details over the next few days.

Cheers

Paul

04/09/2024

A baby Onyx 😍💜💜

14/06/2024

TOMORROW Twin Peaks Challenge 🗻🙌💪
Here’s hoping we don’t get rained on too badly.. I’ve said it a million times, thank you doesn’t seem right anymore for all of the donations and support.

Instead of blabbing here’s a few of my favourite hiking p*ks, recent training and lastly, myself trying to blend into the hospital walls in February so I could escape yet another wee unwanted hotel stay 😅💁‍♀️💙

Go Team Hiker Hounds!!! Myself, Hannah, Colm and Kev 💃🙌💪

04/06/2024

May ~ lots of wild dips, walks, bug bites, good doggos and big gurl (skindog) turned 3!?! 💜💜💜
Not the easiest month, two solid years on chemo with more ahead of me 🫠💃 but looking back on the highlights is very important when you have the memory of a drunken goldfish 🐟

29/05/2024

Only about another two weeks to go and we are at almost double the fundraising goal for the Cancer Focus Northern Ireland Twin Peaks Challenge!! 🙌🎉🗻

Thank you everyone so very much in what has been a hard year for myself and 💙
I couldn’t ask for a better (funny/ brutally honest) swim and hiking buddy 💜🐾💜
Also thank you to everyone who read the lovely Cancer Focus article recently, a quick note incase you seen it on Belfast Live or the odd local paper, the Seven Summits I took part in was 2019, not last year, when I was probs in hospital yet again 🫠💁‍♀️😅 just incase anyone thought I was skipping over seven mountains a year ago, I bloody wish 🤣

https://www.justgiving.com/page/gemhikerhoundstwinpeaks?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Fgemhikerhoundstwinpeaks&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=pfp-share

02/05/2024

There are too many to thank individually, but together we are over our goal already 😭💪🌊🗻💙 thank you isn’t enough for the kindness everyone has shown for donating, showing support, and coming to swim and chat and brave the cold at my 2 year Cancerversary!!! 😭 The Twin Peaks Challenge Cancer Focus Northern Ireland will be wee buns knowing what and who I’m pushing myself for. Thank you all so very much, I’ve been lost for words this week. So much love, and hug your dags, Gem.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/gemhikerhoundstwinpeaks?utm_source=IG

Major thanks to Backyard Photography Company
Murphy & Bailey
K9 Grooming Studio

21/04/2024

Awk I just had to reshare this from four years ago 💜 good aul Bill loved helping out 🤣⚓️

09/04/2024

Lurcher type dog running on main busy road then ran off up Shandon Park,
Please let owner know if you are aware of anyone looking for their dog! 💙

31/03/2024

The Mountains are Calling!! 🏔️🐾💜 so I did a thing, booked onto the Twin Peaks Challenge 😬
Ever since being diagnosed with cancer back in April 2022, blasted with surgery, chemo and radiotherapy, I’ve been desperate to get back to my happy place, the mountains. I am obviously, so so grateful to still be here, as two years is the most high risk period of reoccurrence for Adrenal Cancer, which led to me being a long term cancer patient, reliant on steroids, and pretty bad mental health 🫠.
To mark this I want to celebrate and get my butt back up the mountains while raising money for a cause that desperately needs help and affects so many of us.

This p*k is the last time I was up there, January 2022, when lil human was 8 months old. I previously took part in the Mourne Seven Summits, maybe I can try that again next year 😅🙌
If you read this far, thank you, and I’ll share more info asap on fundraising 🙌🎉

https://www.justgiving.com/page/gemhikerhoundstwinpeaks?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Fgemhikerhoundstwinpeaks&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=pfp-share

22/03/2024

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