partnersinpositivity

09/10/2024

Hey all, hope everyone is well and ready for our next adventure together! Our October hike is going to be great and it’s live now 😆
We know what it’s like thinking ‘ah I wish I had some fun people to do stuff with’ outdoors and on weekends!
Well now you do!
We’re heading off to hike Mourne Mountains for the first time on Sunday 20th of October.
We chose Slieve Doan because it’s said to have some of the best views in the Mourne Mountains and it’s a short and moderate climb!
What you’ll receive from this hike:
💚 Good vibes
💚 Meet gorgeous people
💚 Fitness accomplishment
💚 Bucket list check
💚 Scenic mountain views
💚 Time in nature
💚 Fresh air
💚 A Sunday well spent
How can I prepare for the hike:
Get a good sleep
Eat well
Pack a bag with your favourite healthy snacks
Flask of tea and few spare cups ;) optional!
If possible car share and bring a friend
Wear hiking footware and appropriate clothing for changeable Irish weather

Date: Sunday 20th October 2024
Time: 11am
Location: Slieve Doan, County Down
Route: 6.8km out and back
Starting point: Ott car park
Finishing point: Ott car park
Duration: 2 hours / 6.8km
Difficulty: Moderate
Elevation: 352 m
Where to park: Ott car park (only 8 spots)
Price: €13 or €15 on Eventbrite

Hope to see some of you there 🤩

Let us know if you’re in 👇🏼

📸 image: Kathryn Bleakley

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03/08/2024

Hey all, our August hike is quite spontaneous and it’s out now 😆
We know what it’s like thinking ‘ah I wish I had some fun people to do stuff with’ outdoors and on weekends!
Well now you do!
We’re heading off to hike the Black Linn (Red Route) in Howth on Monday 5th of August.
What you’ll receive from this hike:
Good vibes
Meet gorgeous people
Fitness accomplishment
Bucket list check
Scenic sea views
Time in nature
Fresh air
A bank holiday Monday well spent
How can I prepare for the hike:
Get a good sleep
Eat well
Pack a bag with your favourite healthy snacks
Flask of tea and few spare cups ;) optional!
If possible car share and bring a friend or travel on the Dart from Connolly Station
Wear hiking footware and appropriate clothing for changeable Irish weather

Date: Monday 5th of August 2024
Time: 10am
Location: Howth, Dublin
Route: 8km loop
Starting point: DART station in Howth Village
Finishing point: DART station in Howth Village
Duration: 2.5 hours / 8km
Difficulty: Moderate
Ascent: 160 m
Where to park: You’ll find plenty of parking near the DART station (check signs to confirm if pay parking or not)🤩

Let us know in the comments if you’re in 👇🏼

18/07/2024

PnP ‘Go Wild’ Hike details 👱🏼‍♀️👩🏻‍🦰
YEOW! Hi all 😃, our next hike has been arranged yay!☀️ 🥾

Dunmore East Cliff Walk 🌊

In Irish, Dún Mór, meaning ‘big fort’

This is one of the most amazing cliff walks on Ireland’s South Coast. Together we’ll start our adventure on foot from the meeting point of Coxtown Public Carpark and do the 14.4KM out and back. The trail runs from the seaside and fishing village of Dunmore East to Ballymacaw Coves, providing stunning scenery, and views across to Hook Head and Hook Lighthouse 🏔🌊☺️
If we’re lucky we might see some seals and whales 🐋 🦭😍
It’s set to be an epic adventure 🌊😆

Come with us and get the body moving, have fun and meet new people 🤗🎊

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Date: Sunday 28th July
Time: 11.11am
Price: €13 (cash or Revolut) €15 Eventbrite

Carpark: Public carpark, Coxtown East, Co. Waterford

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Length: 14.4KM
Height: 720.2
Elevation: 352m
Route: out and back
Average time: 5 hours
Difficulty: Moderate

Photo credit: Renata Koronkiewicz, All Trails

Let us know if you’re in 👇🏼

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18/06/2024

Any plans this Sunday June 23rd?
If not, we’ve great news for ya.
We know what it’s like sitting at
home night after night thinking ‘ah
man I wish I had some fun people to
do stuff with’.
Well now you do000000.

We’re heading off to hike Lough Bray Loop 🔁

PnP ‘Go Wild’ Hike details 👱🏼‍♀️👩🏻‍🦰
YEOW!

Lough Bray Loop is one of Wicklow’s finest hikes. Together we’ll start our adventure hiking from the meeting point of Lough Bray Carpark and do the 6.7KM loop which brings us around the two lakes, Upper and Lower Lough Bray. Along our journey we’ll take in views of Lough Bray House too 🏔🏡 ☺️
It’s set to be an epic adventure 🌳😆

Please note: it’s quite boggy so be prepared for Irish weather. Hiking boots are recommended but not required.

Come with us and get the body moving, have fun and meet new people 🤗🎊

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Date: Sunday 23rd June
Time: 11.11am
Price: €13 (cash or Revolut) €15 Eventbrite

Carpark: Lough Bray Parking
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZcxFhQTiD2CgyKbx5?g_st=ic

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Length: 6.7KM
Route: Loop 🔁
Average time: 2hrs 10 mins

Let us know if you’re in 👇🏼

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21/05/2024

PnP ‘Go Wild’ Hike details 👱🏼‍♀️👩🏻‍🦰
YEOW! Hi all 😃, our next hike has been arranged yay!☀️ 🥾

Bray Beach to Killiney Beach and back 🔁

Together we’ll set sail... walking from the meeting point of Bray Town Council Carpark and do the out and back 14.5KM trail which brings us by glorious views of Bray to Killiney coastline 😎☺️
Bring your sunglasses!

It’s set to be an epic coastal adventure 🌳😆🌊

Come with us and get the body moving, have fun and meet new people 🤗🎊

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Date: Sunday 26th May
Time: 11.11am
Price: €13 (cash or Revolut) €15 Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pnp-go-wild-may-hike-tickets-909367130567?aff=oddtdtcreator

County: Wicklow
Car park & meeting point: Bray Town Council Car Park, Strand Rd, Ravenswell, Bray, Wicklow

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Length: 15.4km
Route: Out & Back
Average time: 4hrs

Let us know if you’re in 👇🏼

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13/03/2024

PnP ‘Go Wild’ Hike details 👱🏼‍♀️👩🏻‍🦰
YEOW! Hi all 😃, our next hike has been arranged yay!☀️ 🥾

Blessington Lake Greenway Trail to Russborough House 🔁

Together we’ll set sail... hiking from the meeting point of Avon Rí Car Park and do the out and back 11KM trail which brings us by stunning views of Blessington Lakes and gorgeous forest areas. We’ll stop in Russborough house for a bite to eat and chats ☺️ We’ll head back through the forest and by the lakes to finish it off. It’s set to be an epic adventure 🌳😆

Come with us and get the body moving, have fun and meet new people 🤗🎊

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Date: Sunday 24th March
Time: 11.11am
Price: €13 (cash or Revolut) €15 Eventbrite

County: Wicklow
Meeting point:
https://goo.gl/maps/BDrkF7LKLMH1His56

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Length: 11km
Route: Out & Back
Average time: 3hrs

Let us know if you’re in 👇🏼

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07/02/2024

Good morning everyone! Are you looking for your next adventure? Well here it is 😆😆😆🥾🥾🥾🏔🏔🏔😃😃😃

PnP ‘Go Wild’ Hike details 👱🏼‍♀️👩🏻‍🦰
Djouce Wood and Powerscourt Waterfall Loop

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Join us for our next group hiking adventure, a beautiful scenic hike walking from Djouce Wood and passing by Powerscourt Waterfall on this magical loop. We’ll be coming together on Saturday to love life out in nature chatting and hiking and hiking and chatting! 😂 it’s been a while lol.

Date: Saturday 10th February
Time: 11:11
Price: €13 (cash or Revolut) / €15 on Eventbrite

County: Wicklow
Meeting point: Djouce (long hill) car park just off the L1036

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Length: 6.27km
Route: loop
Average time: 2.5hrs
Difficulty: Moderate

Let us know if you’re joining us ###

25/11/2023

#78: “That’s why I scream about mental health” | Sandra Dillon

Welcome to Partners in Positivity. A place for deep conversations.

Back in October we were asked by a friend, community legend & past guest Fred Hennessy, Owner of F**t Conditioning Finglas, to record an episode to raise awareness on an organization in Finglas called FSN. That’s Finglas Support & Su***de Prevention Network. In the past three years Fred has helped raise a massive €55,876.46 for FSN through the Finglas to Howth Summit half marathon.

In this episode we were left speechless at times and in awe of our guest Sandra Dillon. Sandra started as a committee member in FSN and has worked many roles since, she is a volunteer and freely gives her time to support this organization that she is truly passionate about. She is determined to use her voice as a voice of hope to anyone that needs it. She courageously shares her story of struggle with her own mental health after having her first child, what’s known as post natal depression.

In this conversation we discuss:

1. Mental Health
2. Random Acts of Kindness
3. Empowerment & Wellness
4. Post Natal Depression
5. Support that’s freely available
6. Community Support
7. Volunteering Opportunities

** For anyone listening who may be triggered by a conversation on su***de or mental health, please check-in with yourself and ask will listening to this conversation help or hinder you?

Feel free to DM or comment on our IG post for this poddie!

We 👩🏼🧑🏻‍🦱👩🏼‍🦰👩🏼 are here for you, listen & unwind fellow partners in our positivity project 😉💕✌🏼

Find us on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Youtube or directly on our website: partnersinpositivity.buzzsprout.com

Sandra Dillion & Fred Hennessy ~ 4/11/2023

Where to find FSN?

Instagram:
Website: www.fsspn.com

***dePrevention
**tFinglas

26/10/2023

The beauty of Ireland 🇮🇪😍☘️
We are looking forward to doing this magnificent hike next week 🤩
Come join us! 🥾

25/10/2023

We noticed a few places that needed some TLC, so we decided to do a beach clean with the help of the group 🧹 as well as, a beautiful beach walk along the Baldoyle Greenway. It was Portmarnock Beach to Burrow beach and back.

Here are some snaps of the longest (16.67km) and most fulfilling hike we've done as a group. 09/07/23 🌊

Join us for our next hike on November 4th 🙂 dm for details x

23/09/2023

What do you see?

thanks for continuing to create, adding more colour, light and beauty wherever you are. We as always love watching your life journey unfold.

Finbar McHugh featured many times on our podcast. If you haven't already we would highly recommend listening to episodes 36, 37, and 38. The wisdom shared by Finbar is timeless.

22/09/2023

A dreamy blue sky day in Bray.

Some snaps of toughest (16.4km) and most beautiful hike we've done as a group.

Join us for our next hike on September 30th 🙂 dm for details x

10/05/2023

#76: "What in this conversation spoke to you?" | Thomas McCormack .authenticity.coach

Welcome to Partners in Positivity. A place for deep conversations.

Today we are overjoyed to release episode 76! This episode is a truly meaningful and insightful conversation with a friend of ours and Life Coach, Thomas McCormack. Thomas is also known as The Authenticity Coach on Instagram. Much of our chat was a fun yet deep exploration on who Thomas is, how he became a Life Coach, and his soul purpose of having compassionately challenging conversations to enhance your sense of self.

Grab a pen and paper. Get ready to pause and take note... because there are lots of extra gems - in the form of questions that Thomas poses to us all to get to know ourselves better.

If you do choose to stop, look into yourself and journal we would love to know what you discovered about yourself from listening to Thomas. Please feel free to DM or comment on our IG post for this poddie!

On this episode with Thomas we discuss:

1. Authenticity
2. Thomas' approach to Life Coaching
3. Insights into energy and spirituality

This trio 👱🏼👩🏼‍🦰👩🏼 are here to share life wisdom, ask compassionately challenging questions and soothe your soul. Listen & unwind fellow partners in our positivity peace project 😉💕✌🏼

Find us on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Youtube or directly on our website: partnersinpositivity.buzzsprout.com

Thomas McCormack ~ 7/12/2022

Where to find Thomas?

Instagram: .authenticity.coach
Website: thomasmccormack.ie
Book a free consultation: https://calendly.com/thomasmccormack/30mins?month=2023-05

15/02/2023

13/6/2022

A cute little cafe in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Plovdiv is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe and one of the oldest cities in the world! There are so many underground Roman ruins there we were blown away by.

One can be visited by going downstairs in H&M on their high street.

https://plovdivcitycard.com/blog/10-interesting-facts-about-plovdiv/

Thanks our gorgeous travel buddy for taking this pic ###

02/02/2023

3 countries, 1 mountain, 323 m high

A trip that began from sharing some carrot cake 🍰 🥕 with a stranger on one of our group hikes in Howth.

This is from three border land mark where Belgium meets Germany and The Netherlands.

On our way back from hiking 🥾 over 36km in Germany and Luxembourg, thanks to Marcel and his Garmin tracker!

09/01/2023

Just remember life is eternal. We are all just stardust dancing along on this cosmic journey of infinity. We have only paused for a brief moment to feel this life. To experience one another, to love one another, to share in all the precious moments of the now. ✨💖

27/12/2022

Happy Holidays ♥️ We hope you’re all enjoying the festivities in your own unique way ♥️🥳
We’re off hiking the hills of Howth on New Year’s Day if you fancy joining us for a fresh start to the New Year 🤩🏔🌊

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/january-go-wild-hike-howth-head-tickets-496248431417

14/11/2022

Beautiful day out at Blessington Greenway yesterday 😍☀️ thanks to everyone who came 💚🤍🧡

Aisling Burnett & Sarah Hearty shared a post on Instagram: "Beautiful sunny November hike out at Blessington Greenway 😍☀️💚🤍🧡 Avon Rí to Rossborough House 🏡 Thanks to everyone who came 🙏🏼 ...

25/10/2022

STRESS STRESS STRESS

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Here’s a pic of us gals celebrating after a day training with at UPW in Sicily back in 2020.

One perspective shift we’ll always remember from this training was about STRESS. The word that is so common in our society to a point that it’s a normal part of everyday modern life.

Tony asked us to consider, is stress a form of suffering? Human suffering. To any degree, if you agree. Next time you begin to start feeling stressed or are stressed ask yourself, ‘am I allowing myself to suffer?’

If you have a child.

How long would you allow a child to suffer?

Think of one of your close friends.

How long would you want a friend to suffer?

And what about you…

How long will you allow yourself to suffer the next time you feel stressed?

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While you may not feel different straight away, if we work on becoming more aware of when we feel stressed and recognise it as a form of suffering. Over time we may start choosing to suffer a little less.

05/10/2022

Story time ❤️ This time last year we went up to Belfast for the Belfast marathon. I was with the gang from F**T Conditioning Finglas and went to cheer on my friend Tracey in her first marathon.

Now I can’t even remember if we stayed for one or two nights 😂 anyway… the morning of the marathon I went with Fred to see everyone cross over the start line, so we had some time to chat on the journey. I said to Fred, “I need a new fitness challenge in my life.” I thought he was gonna say, why don’t you do a marathon or join the powerlifting club, but he didn’t.
He said, “why don’t you climb a mountain?” I was like what? 😂😂 I felt like I kinda did that already with my few hikes.

The moral of this story is about the power of someone planting a positive seed 🌱 it didn’t excite me to just climb more mountains… I wanted more fun!… so what do you know, me and Sarah decided to create group hikes together, where we would use our Partners in Positivity page to invite people along with us. We started just a few weeks after Fred planted that seed, so it’s been a whole year and lots of monthly hikes which meant meeting lots of beautiful new people, seeing beautiful sights around Ireland together, exploring the Dublin and Wicklow mountains and branching out further to the Slieve Blooms in Laois and Sliabh na mbán in Tipperary and our most recent Mount Leinster (the highest point in two counties, Carlow and Wexford). We have had an absolute blast 💥 🏔

Our next one will be along the beautiful cliffs of Howth. It’s the longest trail (the Bog of Frogs Purple Route) it takes 3 hours, and starts in Howth village. It’s on October 16th. Feel free to join us, even if you’re in a different country, you can fly in for it! Just like Declan Burnett did 😂

Thank you Fred for channeling that message to me and thanks to everyone who has joined us and made it more amazing! And last but not least thank you to the beautiful people who bring flasks of tea and hot and cold snacks all the way up the mountain on their backs, just so we can enjoy a wonderful picnic at the top!

It is very much appreciated!

Love and peace, Ais xx

17/08/2022

#74: Stressed? How does oxygen help? 🌬 | Dana Piotrowska, Oxyzone Dublin.

Welcome to Partners in Postivity. A place for deep conversations.

We are delighted to introduce you to a friend of ours Dana Piotrowska. This lady we love has helped us and many others in so many ways and really adds to the community in a positive way. Dana is a Physical Therapist and has just launched Oxyzone, Dublin, which is an Oxygen Therapy facility.

On this episode with Dana we discuss:

1. What Oxygen Therapy is
2. Why it is useful
3. How it can help heal the body

These three wonderful women 👩🏼👩🏼‍🦰👩🏼 are here to share an alternative way to heal, remind you to take care of yourself, and simply soothe your soul. Listen & unwind fellow partners in our positivity peace project 😉💕✌🏼

Find us on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Youtube or directly on our website: partnersinpositivity.buzzsprout.com

Where to find Dana:

Dana Piotrowska ~ 27/7/2022

www.instagram.com/oxyzoneie

03/08/2022

#73: It's ok to be a woman🌹| Anne Marie Fitzgerald | Vinyasa Flow Teacher & Sound Healer

Welcome to Partners in Postivity. A place for deep conversations.

This week we are back after a summer break with fresh energy, podcast tweaks and as always, a deep conversation with a beautiful soul.

We are overjoyed to introduce you to a woman serving society with many passions and inspirational talents, Anne Marie Fitzgerald. This lady we look up to is a yoga teacher, sound healer, singer, writer, and documentary producer.

While we wish we had an episode for each of Anne Marie’s roles on this earth, on our first episode with her we discuss::

1. Vinyasa Flow Yoga
2. How to honour yourself as a woman
3. Expressing yourself through writing

These three wonderful women 👩🏻👩‍🦳👩‍ are here to share healthy coping tools like yoga, remind you to honour yourself, and simply soothe your soul. Listen & unwind fellow partners in our positivity peace project 😉💕✌🏼

Find us on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Youtube or directly on our website: partnersinpositivity.buzzsprout.com

Where to find Azzy:

Anne Marie Fitzgerald ~ 20/7/2022

https://annemariefitzgerald.com/

02/08/2022

Thank you for having the courage to share your story with us ❤️🙏🏼

25/07/2022

Would you like to see more of Ireland? Come join us! 💃🏼🏔🇮🇪
Hi everyone!

Our next group hike for August has been decided and we are very excited 😆

We’re off to hike Slievenamon in county Tipperary where we will see beautiful views of all surrounding counties! You will also hear the love story of Slievenamon 😍☘️

Come with us and get the body moving, have fun and meet new people 🤗🎊

Date: Sunday, August 7th
Time: 11.11am

Tag your friends who you’d love to bring👇🏼