APS Community Thrift Shop

14/03/2025

For all the latest updates & news about our trauma-informed counselling services & training courses please follow A Positive Start CIC. 🙏

A Positive Start is a grassroots Community Interest Company (CIC) led by a board of directors with lived experience.

We take a holistic approach to community well-being—supporting mind, body, and soul—through our Trauma-Informed TRUST Framework, designed with deep insight from lived experience.

We specialise in working with trauma and emotional dysregulation, creating safe spaces for healing, relearning, and growth while advocating for a more trauma-informed society.

We offer Counselling, Therapy, and Trauma-Informed Education, all built on a foundation of TRUST and provided on a donation basis to ensure accessibility.

Learn more at www.apositivestart.org.uk

26/02/2025

Well done A Positive Start CIC! 🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏

The only way is up….baby! 🎶🎼🎵🎶

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22/02/2025

Not long now folks. We’re ready, hope you are too! 🙏🙌👏🙌👏

14/02/2025

Not long now folks! Spaces still available on our Reconnect & Regulate Program on 24th February that will run for 8 weeks. Booking details below. 👇👇👇

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12/02/2025

The future is so bright, I’ve got to wear shades! 😎🎶🎼🎵

Hello folks, yet more exciting news that we want to share with you about A Positive Start CIC!

Please continue you follow our APS Community Thrift Shop (Now Community Training Hub) page to keep up-to-date with all our exciting news & training courses that we will be advertising shortly!

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10/02/2025

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07/02/2025

Happy Friday folks! It’s now been a week since our Community Thrift Shop has closed & we’ve been busy bees turning the space into a welcoming Community Training Hub! 🥰🐝🤗🐝

One of the first courses we will be delivering is ‘Reconnect & Regulate’ an 8 week program beginning on Monday 24th February from 6pm-8pm. There are still spaces available for this fully funded FREE course. Booking details are on the poster below. 👇👇👇

A Positive Start CIC is also offering therapy online as well as in person. To book an online session email [email protected] for more information.

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05/02/2025

Trying something new is never easy but if you don’t try you won’t know!

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Trying something new is never easy, especially when it feels like we’re stepping into unfamiliar territory. Often, we judge ourselves harshly, expecting perfection from the start, but real growth happens when we embrace the process—messiness and all.

Take my book, for example. It took me forever to get around to writing it, and now that it’s done, I can’t help but notice its flaws. It doesn’t flow the way I imagined it would. It’s messy and disorganized in places, and I can see where I stopped and started again after a long break—readers will probably notice that, too. In the past, this would’ve been enough for me to scrap the whole thing and pretend it never existed.

But this time, I’m choosing not to. It’s far from perfect—just like me—and that’s okay. Writing it taught me something valuable: that vulnerability is part of the journey. I don’t like feeling exposed, but I know that to heal, grow, and improve, I have to allow myself to be vulnerable. I have to accept my mistakes, not as failures but as lessons that show me where I can improve.

So, here’s the truth: It’s not about perfection. It’s about progress. If we can learn to praise and encourage ourselves rather than criticize and hide, we can move forward. By embracing our flaws, we create space to grow. And that’s where the magic happens.

Let’s celebrate the process, not just the outcome. Let’s give ourselves permission to learn, to be imperfect, and to keep going. If my theory is correct, my second book will be better.

04/02/2025

Good afternoon folks. As you may have seen if you have passed Sandbed over the past few days, our Community Thrift Shop has been packed up. All donations that weren’t sold have been divided between the other charity shops in Hawick. ♻️👗👖👚👔🩳🧣👜👢👢👠👠👞👞👟👟

We would like to take this opportunity to once again thank all our customers & volunteers who have supported our Community Thrift Shop since we opened in June 2023. 🙏🙏🙌🙌👏👏🫶🫶

Our main purpose at A Positive Start CIC was always about supporting community mental health through trauma-informed therapy. Our space is now in the process of being transformed into a welcoming community training hub for workshops, therapy & community support.

Here are just a few of the exciting events that will be happening soon:

🗓️ Reconnect & Regulate Workshops – Mondays, 6-8 pm. Starting on 24th February & running for 8 weeks. Places still available!

🗓️ CBT for Anxiety Group Therapy – Wednesdays, 7-8:30 pm.

🗓️ More workshops & holistic therapies coming soon!

🗓️ Starting around April (technically it’s still winter) we will be offering Cycling for Health & Wellbeing sessions utilising our ebikes.

Register online at: https://livedlearning.apositivestart.org.uk

Please continue to follow APS Community Thrift Shop (I can’t change the name of the page due to too much capitalisation!) although I have updated the bio. So please support our new venture & share & spread the word! 📣📢📣📢

01/02/2025

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