Margins of Meaning
You finished. You found out finishing wasn't the answer.
You perform success but don't feel successful. You understand the pattern — and you're still living inside it. Margins of Meaning is a framework for the gap between understanding and change.
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01 — The Framework
What MoM is. Who it's for. The core theory.
Margins of Meaning is a framework for high-functioning adults navigating the gap between external competence and internal experience. It names what languishing actually is, why insight isn't enough, and what reconstruction requires. The intellectual foundation lives here.
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02 — The Stages
Safety. Noticing. Felt Sense. Accommodation. Change.
The five-stage process of reconstruction. Not a linear program — a sequence the nervous system can actually move through. Each stage names what the work is at that point, and what it can't be yet.
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03 — The Domains
Interoception. Languishing. Narrative identity. John Henryism.
The conceptual territory the framework draws from. Not a glossary — a map of the domains where the work actually happens, and the literature each one rests on.
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04 — The Literature
The citation base. Browseable.
The sources behind the framework — Keyes, Aziz, McAdams, James, Porges, and the field notes that connect them. Open, searchable, and updated as the work continues.
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05 — Insights
Field notes. Dispatches. Working in public.
Short essays from inside the work — the practicum, the framework as it develops, the gap between what the literature says and what shows up in the room. Subscribe for new dispatches as they're written.
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06 — About
Orlando J. Spikes. Counselor-in-training. Writing from inside the gap.
Clinical practicum at Legacy. MEd in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Valdosta State. Prior MS in I/O psychology and MM in vocal performance. The book is in development. The framework is the work.
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