13elephants

13elephants third space manuscript

What if the most powerful thing you could do right now is tell the truth about your own life?

13elephants: third space by Dr Micheal Brown is a raw, honest, and academically grounded exploration of what it means to be human — in all its chaos, contradiction, and unexpected beauty.

Part memoir. Part framework. Part permission slip. The third space is the reflective space between your past and your future — where the stories you have been carrying alone finally get to breathe. Where the elephant in the room gets a voice. Where you stop performing for the world and start understanding yourself.

Written by New Zealand scholar, wellbeing practitioner, and founder of the 13elephants podcast and consultancy, this is a book you can open at any page and find your story inside it.

Because you are not too broken.

You are not too much.

You are not too strange.

You are, in fact, exactly where the third space begins.

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13elephants: Podcast: Series 003:

Episode 003: Harley Davidson And The Lone Wolf

We all have our lonely times, we all scream silently at the world from time to time...

The Lone Wolf rides a Harley...

the Lone Wolf is a 12 year old boy playing football, creating space...

Its ok to be a Lone Wolf in a world telling us to be something we may not want to be...

Let's be the extrovert introverted...

let us be authentic...

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13elephants: Podcast: Series 003:

Episode 002: What Can We talk About?

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No background audio here...

This is raw dialogue of the lived experience... the voice alone tells the third space story...

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13elephants: Podcast: Series 003:

Episode 001: Death

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13elephants: Trailer: Series 003

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13elephants: Awakenings: S2: Episode 013:  

This is the final episode of season two of the 13elephants podcast series...

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13elephants: Sleeping Daze… Awakening the third space: S2: Episode 012:  

Today, I am told sleep deprivation will cause all manner of ills, sleep deprivation will potentially cause possible heart disease, lung disease, possible catastrophic breakdown of all internal organs.

Today, I am told sleep deprivation will impact on my relationships, where fatigue will set in, where potential of dementia, of Alzheimer’s disease may be increased because of lack of sleep.

Today, the world tells me through social media, through select research - that sleep is topical, is now viewed by some as more important than any other function, when the measure of good health is the question, we seek answers to.

Yet, we live in a world that makes it impossible to sleep, we live in a world of ‘shinny’ things, of ‘bells’ and ‘sirens’ of 10 second clips, of scrolling, of instant gratification 24 hours a day.

Our world today is a contradiction, telling us one thing and making it impossible to achieve that one thing, because the world is geared to provide us with an alternative medicine, a false medicine.

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13elephants: Today, I Feel Good: S2: Episode 011:  

Today I am grateful to all that has come before me, all that is in the present and all that is ahead of me.  Today I feel good. Today is another day and I am grateful.

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13elephants: I Am an Expert On Me: S2: Episode 010:  

I have often been suggested as an ‘expert’ of various things, generally across small victories made in social services or education, or Wellbeing and generally because I have a few academic qualifications and some experience across varied fields, but I am no expert in these things, it is simply that I have experience and qualifications in them, that is all. There are far more qualified and experienced people in the world on all topics that I have some or lots of knowledge of.

I am an expert on me. I am an expert on the lived experiences of me. I am an expert in knowing me.

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13elephants: Falling and Getting up Again: S2: Episode 009:  

The third space is about learning and adapting about falling and getting up again and ultimately about love and about learning and knowing that the lived experience of the past is the third space knowledge of today and the future

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