Sometimes Karen’s selected theme is so resonant that my contribution practically writes itself.  But I wasn’t feeling very wonderous, wonderful or even wondering.

There were sad and unsettling things happening in my life, and those of some of my closest friends.  Wonder didn’t sit well at all!

Totally barren in the ideas department, I struggled to find how wonder and better relationships might fit and how I could authentically write about it.

And then I read an article about fighting and I knew!

I knew heaps about fighting from bitter experience, and still now SweetP and I will have the odd fight that strikes like a whirlwind and leaves us wondering what happened to us.

So this month’s Relationship Space Wondering What You Could Do For A Better Relationship? is devoted to a reflection on fighting and changing how we do it.

I’m wondering if anyone will try the technique and let us all know how it goes!

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Chris Owen is Pink Apple and a bubbly Aussie Relationship Expert.

If you want a better relationship, but don’t know how to get it, then why not follow the beating heart in sidebar of this blog and take the Relationship Mojo Test?  You’ll receive Chris’ free E-Book  Your Relationship: From Mojo to Marvellous to help you improve your relationship.   Oh and there are other bonuses to be found on the other side of that beating heart!

Every month The Calm Space has a theme.  Each week, 3 or 4 of the contributors add some more food for thought on the month’s theme. As the month progresses, the roots of the theme get tickled and tackled. Opinions arise, stories develop, and sometimes controversy takes the stage!

This month’s theme is “purpose”.

Now, I’d argue that purpose is a bit of a new-age, coach-induced phenomenon.

And I’m a coach – kind of!

If the Calm Space is about moving “from stress serenity one step at a time” then I reckon purpose should be given a good kick in the backside!

So I’m reluctant to add having a purpose to the relationship “shoulds” that hang like boulders around our necks.

I figure that just like you learn to pick your battles with your adolescent children, there are other more important relationship “battles” to attack, than having a purpose! [more]

What do you think?

Oh by the way, Karen offers an excellent e-course to get you helping yourself.  Called A Month of Me Time it’s an excellent freebie.  I suggest you try it!

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If you’d rather, we can meet up on Facebook. All you need to do is become a Fan of Pink Apple on FaceBook.

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Chris Owen is Pink Apple and a bubbly Aussie Relationship Expert.

If you want a better relationship, but don’t know how to get it, then why not follow the beating heart in sidebar of this blog and take the Relationship Mojo Test?  You’ll receive Chris’ free E-Book  Your Relationship: From Mojo to Marvellous to help you improve your relationship.   Oh and there are other bonuses to be found on the other side of that beating heart!

(I'd love to finish off that sentence with "of parties" but unfortunately my life is far too boring for that!)

But let's not get distracted by my lack of social life!

As I was saying, when my own thoughts so rudely interrupted me, my life seems to be whirling along at a pace that I'd rather put some brakes on.

How often do YOU feel like that?

Fortunately each month Karen Wallace takes pity on us all and brings us The Calm Space.

Before I go on I must confess my bias.  I am a contributor each month with my musings on the
Relationship Space.  (This month – Truth and Lies in Relationships: Are You Perpetrator Victim Or Both?)

However I'm telling you about it, because I get heaps out of reading the online mag's
other great articles.   

Karen describes her little virtual haven like this:

The Calm Space is an online magazine that is like a
virtual day-spa for your senses… decadent, informative, relaxing, a
real no-mobile-phones-allowed kind of escape where you can chill for a
minute or an hour and emerge refreshed and ready to face anything your
day throws at you!

It’s a rare woman who doesn’t succumb to chaos and madness at some
stage during her busy week. Whatever your particular life situation,
and no matter how your day is going, you will find respite within the
spaces here.

What I love is:

• the great themes for each month's articles.  July = Truth, June = Kindness May = Work  April = Conversations
• zeroing in on Karen's (@karenwallace) own infectious Calm in the Serenity Space
• getting some insights into organising from Angela Esnouf (@creatingorder) of Creating Order from Chaos on the Organising Space
• tapping into my spiritual side with Annie Hutton's challenges on the Spiritual Space
• pampering myself (well at least in my dreams) at the Spa Space
• Reading the most exquisite prose about all things Nature from Amy Palko (@amypalko) at the Nature Space 
• Filling my books wishlist from the fabuloso Marj's Lim's (@SlimInkMarjorie) suggestions on the latest good books in the Reading Space
• Swallowing my dose of financial medicine from the gorgeous Grant Wallace on Money Space (Alright I confess sometimes I'm a bit scared to go there, but always end up glad I did.)
• There's even monthly prizes (tho i don't get to be in that prize draw for obvious reasons!)

So when I need a bit of chillin' I go to The Calm Space.

Does it help you like that?