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

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When I get asked that question, you know the magic wand one, I always say "If I had a magic wand, I’d like to be serene!"

Friends say that if I was serene I wouldn’t be me, and I suppose that’s true and maybe even fair enough.  But the occasional bit of serenity wouldn’t go astray!

So to help in my endless quest, I make it m business to seek out methods for achieving a calmer me, and people who have serenity about them.

That’s probably one of the qualities I like most about my friend Karen Wallace over at The Clearing Space.  She has an infectious calm and serenity about her, even when things are whirling wild around her!

So it’s only right that Karen’s latest venture -an online monthly magazine – would be called The Calm Space.

It even looks serene!

Along with an array of contributing authors focusing on organising, spirituality, the digital world, reading, relationships and even breathing, the Calm Space is like walking into one of those wonderful indulgence havens.

Karen describes The Calm Space as

… 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.

The Calm Space is an online, monthly magazine – written by a team of
amazing, real-life women who are living their passion with a purpose
and a focus.

What you see in this magazine is not ‘reporting’. It is information,
hints, tips and inspiration direct from those in-the-know. We write in
our own unique voices, and tell it like it is.

Now I’m letting MY Readers in on the secret of The Calm Space very early!  It was only launched last night with the odd glass of bubbles!

Subscription is FREE though I doubt it will remain that way!  There are also monthly prize draws,  This month’s is a gorgeous coffee-table book, by the equally gorgeous-looking landscaper extraordinaire Jamie Durie.  The book is called  INSPIRED – The Ideas that Shape & Create my Design

And for a very limited time, there is also a chance to receive for FREE, Karen’s e-book How to Find The Pause Button For Your Life.  Having read Pause Button, I can DEFINITELY recommend it to you!  And you MUST go get it now, because I know that it will be selling on the site VERY soon.  It’s one of the benefits of being an Apple Tart reader that you get to know about this very LIMITED OFFER!

I don’t see ANY disadvantages to popping over to The Calm Space, taking a deep intake of Calm and registering for competitions, e-books and to receive the monthly mag in YOUR Inbox.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you!