Resmaa
@resmaa.bsky.social
NY Times Best Selling Author. Racialized Trauma expert has appeared The Breakfast Club, Tha Gods Honest Truth, Oprah, Dr. Phil #somaticaliberation
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In South Africa I spoke about how trauma doesn’t just live in memory. It lives in the body.
Somatic abolitionism means tending to the body so we can break the pattern for the generations that follow.
🎥 Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btl...
🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com
Somatic abolitionism means tending to the body so we can break the pattern for the generations that follow.
🎥 Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btl...
🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
In South Africa I spoke about how trauma doesn’t just live in memory. It lives in the body.
Somatic abolitionism means tending to the body so we can break the pattern for the generations that follow.
🎥 Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btl...
🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com
Somatic abolitionism means tending to the body so we can break the pattern for the generations that follow.
🎥 Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btl...
🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com
Jamaica has held so many of us. Now we give that care back.
Support Valentino’s Dream Team as they rebuild after Hurricane Melissa.
💫 www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#ReciprocalCare #RebuildTogether
Support Valentino’s Dream Team as they rebuild after Hurricane Melissa.
💫 www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#ReciprocalCare #RebuildTogether
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Jamaica has held so many of us. Now we give that care back.
Support Valentino’s Dream Team as they rebuild after Hurricane Melissa.
💫 www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#ReciprocalCare #RebuildTogether
Support Valentino’s Dream Team as they rebuild after Hurricane Melissa.
💫 www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#ReciprocalCare #RebuildTogether
After the storm, the body looks for ground.
Help Valentino and his team rebuild homes and safety after Hurricane Melissa.
🤎 Give here: www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#CareAsPractice #CommunityHealing
Help Valentino and his team rebuild homes and safety after Hurricane Melissa.
🤎 Give here: www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#CareAsPractice #CommunityHealing
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
After the storm, the body looks for ground.
Help Valentino and his team rebuild homes and safety after Hurricane Melissa.
🤎 Give here: www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#CareAsPractice #CommunityHealing
Help Valentino and his team rebuild homes and safety after Hurricane Melissa.
🤎 Give here: www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#CareAsPractice #CommunityHealing
Hurricane Melissa destroyed the homes of Valentino Smith and the Dreamtime Villa team in Jamaica.
This is not charity. It is reciprocity.
💚 Donate: www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#RebuildTogether #CollectiveCare
This is not charity. It is reciprocity.
💚 Donate: www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#RebuildTogether #CollectiveCare
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Hurricane Melissa destroyed the homes of Valentino Smith and the Dreamtime Villa team in Jamaica.
This is not charity. It is reciprocity.
💚 Donate: www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#RebuildTogether #CollectiveCare
This is not charity. It is reciprocity.
💚 Donate: www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-va...
#RebuildTogether #CollectiveCare
Reflecting on my time in South Africa 🇿🇦.
How has the white body being seen itself as the standard of humanness our collective healing?
🎥 Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btl...
🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com
#SomaticAbolitionism #RacialHealing #BlackOctopusSociety
How has the white body being seen itself as the standard of humanness our collective healing?
🎥 Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btl...
🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com
#SomaticAbolitionism #RacialHealing #BlackOctopusSociety
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Reflecting on my time in South Africa 🇿🇦.
How has the white body being seen itself as the standard of humanness our collective healing?
🎥 Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btl...
🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com
#SomaticAbolitionism #RacialHealing #BlackOctopusSociety
How has the white body being seen itself as the standard of humanness our collective healing?
🎥 Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Btl...
🐙 Connect with community: blackoctopussociety.com
#SomaticAbolitionism #RacialHealing #BlackOctopusSociety
The gnashing isn’t failure—it’s feedback. We’re in a 30-year practice. Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite
Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#BlackOctopusSociety #QuakingOfAmerica 🐙
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#BlackOctopusSociety #QuakingOfAmerica 🐙
October 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The gnashing isn’t failure—it’s feedback. We’re in a 30-year practice. Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite
Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#BlackOctopusSociety #QuakingOfAmerica 🐙
Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#BlackOctopusSociety #QuakingOfAmerica 🐙
This Thursday we gather.
Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise is a conversation with Bayo Akomolafe, Orland Bishop & me on living, healing & acting as Black people in these times.
🎟️ townhallseattle.org/event/healin...
#ThreeBlackMen #SeattleEvents
Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise is a conversation with Bayo Akomolafe, Orland Bishop & me on living, healing & acting as Black people in these times.
🎟️ townhallseattle.org/event/healin...
#ThreeBlackMen #SeattleEvents
October 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This Thursday we gather.
Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise is a conversation with Bayo Akomolafe, Orland Bishop & me on living, healing & acting as Black people in these times.
🎟️ townhallseattle.org/event/healin...
#ThreeBlackMen #SeattleEvents
Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise is a conversation with Bayo Akomolafe, Orland Bishop & me on living, healing & acting as Black people in these times.
🎟️ townhallseattle.org/event/healin...
#ThreeBlackMen #SeattleEvents
“You don’t get the glue without constriction.” The real work is staying through the squeeze. 🌊
Train: resmaa.mn.co/invite
Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#BlackOctopusSociety #QuakingOfAmerica 🐙
Train: resmaa.mn.co/invite
Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#BlackOctopusSociety #QuakingOfAmerica 🐙
October 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“You don’t get the glue without constriction.” The real work is staying through the squeeze. 🌊
Train: resmaa.mn.co/invite
Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#BlackOctopusSociety #QuakingOfAmerica 🐙
Train: resmaa.mn.co/invite
Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#BlackOctopusSociety #QuakingOfAmerica 🐙
In 2 weeks: Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise at Town Hall Seattle—an evening on Black identity, ancestral connection + healing w/ Bayo Akomolafe + Orland Bishop.
🗓️ Oct 30 | 7:30 PM
🎟️ townhallseattle.org/event/healin...
#ThreeBlackMen #HealingAndLiberation #SeattleEvents
🗓️ Oct 30 | 7:30 PM
🎟️ townhallseattle.org/event/healin...
#ThreeBlackMen #HealingAndLiberation #SeattleEvents
October 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In 2 weeks: Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise at Town Hall Seattle—an evening on Black identity, ancestral connection + healing w/ Bayo Akomolafe + Orland Bishop.
🗓️ Oct 30 | 7:30 PM
🎟️ townhallseattle.org/event/healin...
#ThreeBlackMen #HealingAndLiberation #SeattleEvents
🗓️ Oct 30 | 7:30 PM
🎟️ townhallseattle.org/event/healin...
#ThreeBlackMen #HealingAndLiberation #SeattleEvents
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“The sperm hasn’t hit the egg yet.” We’re still seeding—still learning to stay in the work when it gets messy.
🌊 Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite
📖 Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #BlackOctopusSociety 🐙
🌊 Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite
📖 Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #BlackOctopusSociety 🐙
October 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“The sperm hasn’t hit the egg yet.” We’re still seeding—still learning to stay in the work when it gets messy.
🌊 Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite
📖 Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #BlackOctopusSociety 🐙
🌊 Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite
📖 Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #BlackOctopusSociety 🐙
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Been in the rhythm of this communal love lately
Deante’ Kyle’s @deantekyle.bsky.social (Grits & Eggs Podcast) is a brilliant space for grounded reflection on racism, repair, and collective truth.
It echoes the nervous-system work we’re building in Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
Deante’ Kyle’s @deantekyle.bsky.social (Grits & Eggs Podcast) is a brilliant space for grounded reflection on racism, repair, and collective truth.
It echoes the nervous-system work we’re building in Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Been in the rhythm of this communal love lately
Deante’ Kyle’s @deantekyle.bsky.social (Grits & Eggs Podcast) is a brilliant space for grounded reflection on racism, repair, and collective truth.
It echoes the nervous-system work we’re building in Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
Deante’ Kyle’s @deantekyle.bsky.social (Grits & Eggs Podcast) is a brilliant space for grounded reflection on racism, repair, and collective truth.
It echoes the nervous-system work we’re building in Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
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Lifting up #AvaDuVernay’s 13th today in this wave of #communallove.
It’s more than a film—it’s a map.
Inside Black Octopus Society, we do this same work in the body—tracking harm, interrupting patterns, building new futures.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
It’s more than a film—it’s a map.
Inside Black Octopus Society, we do this same work in the body—tracking harm, interrupting patterns, building new futures.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Lifting up #AvaDuVernay’s 13th today in this wave of #communallove.
It’s more than a film—it’s a map.
Inside Black Octopus Society, we do this same work in the body—tracking harm, interrupting patterns, building new futures.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
It’s more than a film—it’s a map.
Inside Black Octopus Society, we do this same work in the body—tracking harm, interrupting patterns, building new futures.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
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Grateful to have served as cultural consultant on Night Always Comes—a gripping new film now streaming on @netflix.com
It asks hard questions about survival, safety, and home. Honored to support the team behind it.
#NightAlwaysComes
It asks hard questions about survival, safety, and home. Honored to support the team behind it.
#NightAlwaysComes
August 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Grateful to have served as cultural consultant on Night Always Comes—a gripping new film now streaming on @netflix.com
It asks hard questions about survival, safety, and home. Honored to support the team behind it.
#NightAlwaysComes
It asks hard questions about survival, safety, and home. Honored to support the team behind it.
#NightAlwaysComes
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Y'all did a great freaking job. The whole movie felt real, desperate, yet still somewhat hopeful. I was put in her shoes for one horrible night and could not help but root for her.
Grateful to have served as cultural consultant on Night Always Comes—a gripping new film now streaming on @netflix.com
It asks hard questions about survival, safety, and home. Honored to support the team behind it.
#NightAlwaysComes
It asks hard questions about survival, safety, and home. Honored to support the team behind it.
#NightAlwaysComes
August 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Y'all did a great freaking job. The whole movie felt real, desperate, yet still somewhat hopeful. I was put in her shoes for one horrible night and could not help but root for her.
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They called it a “multilateral lunch.” But the photo op came with a funeral.
USAID dissolved. 14M deaths projected.
This isn’t partnership—it’s abandonment.
📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
🧠 blackoctopussociety.com
#QuakingOfAmerica
USAID dissolved. 14M deaths projected.
This isn’t partnership—it’s abandonment.
📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
🧠 blackoctopussociety.com
#QuakingOfAmerica
August 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
They called it a “multilateral lunch.” But the photo op came with a funeral.
USAID dissolved. 14M deaths projected.
This isn’t partnership—it’s abandonment.
📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
🧠 blackoctopussociety.com
#QuakingOfAmerica
USAID dissolved. 14M deaths projected.
This isn’t partnership—it’s abandonment.
📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
🧠 blackoctopussociety.com
#QuakingOfAmerica
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Long live Black bookstores, Black authors, and Black literature.
Sign up. Support your local. Let’s own our stories.
🖤https://www.nab2.org/membership
#NAB2 #BlackBookstores #QuakingOfAmerica #BlackLiterature #SomaticAbolitionism #SupportBlackBusiness
Sign up. Support your local. Let’s own our stories.
🖤https://www.nab2.org/membership
#NAB2 #BlackBookstores #QuakingOfAmerica #BlackLiterature #SomaticAbolitionism #SupportBlackBusiness
August 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Long live Black bookstores, Black authors, and Black literature.
Sign up. Support your local. Let’s own our stories.
🖤https://www.nab2.org/membership
#NAB2 #BlackBookstores #QuakingOfAmerica #BlackLiterature #SomaticAbolitionism #SupportBlackBusiness
Sign up. Support your local. Let’s own our stories.
🖤https://www.nab2.org/membership
#NAB2 #BlackBookstores #QuakingOfAmerica #BlackLiterature #SomaticAbolitionism #SupportBlackBusiness
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Stop waiting for them to save us.
Every time they ease up, we forget 500 years of brutality.
Liberation starts when we build our own—our art, our care, our glue between each other. That’s the work we’re doing inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
Every time they ease up, we forget 500 years of brutality.
Liberation starts when we build our own—our art, our care, our glue between each other. That’s the work we’re doing inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Stop waiting for them to save us.
Every time they ease up, we forget 500 years of brutality.
Liberation starts when we build our own—our art, our care, our glue between each other. That’s the work we’re doing inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
Every time they ease up, we forget 500 years of brutality.
Liberation starts when we build our own—our art, our care, our glue between each other. That’s the work we’re doing inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
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Liberation isn’t real if it excludes.
My freedom is bound up with Black trans lives, with sisters facing misogynoir, with everyone crushed by colonization, imperialism, and land theft.
That’s the work we’re building inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
My freedom is bound up with Black trans lives, with sisters facing misogynoir, with everyone crushed by colonization, imperialism, and land theft.
That’s the work we’re building inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Liberation isn’t real if it excludes.
My freedom is bound up with Black trans lives, with sisters facing misogynoir, with everyone crushed by colonization, imperialism, and land theft.
That’s the work we’re building inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
My freedom is bound up with Black trans lives, with sisters facing misogynoir, with everyone crushed by colonization, imperialism, and land theft.
That’s the work we’re building inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊 blackoctopussociety.com
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Anger is not the enemy. In the face of brutality, numbness is.
If you can watch what’s happening in the world and feel nothing—you’re the problem.
Join us in practicing something different: body-based justice, care, and community inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊http://BlackOctopusSociety.com
If you can watch what’s happening in the world and feel nothing—you’re the problem.
Join us in practicing something different: body-based justice, care, and community inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊http://BlackOctopusSociety.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Anger is not the enemy. In the face of brutality, numbness is.
If you can watch what’s happening in the world and feel nothing—you’re the problem.
Join us in practicing something different: body-based justice, care, and community inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊http://BlackOctopusSociety.com
If you can watch what’s happening in the world and feel nothing—you’re the problem.
Join us in practicing something different: body-based justice, care, and community inside Black Octopus Society.
🌊http://BlackOctopusSociety.com
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Healing is both individual + communal.
“What our people really need is a redress of the thwarting + damage done to us—in our bodies, communities, and across generations.”
📖 Go deeper in The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism
“What our people really need is a redress of the thwarting + damage done to us—in our bodies, communities, and across generations.”
📖 Go deeper in The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism
September 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Healing is both individual + communal.
“What our people really need is a redress of the thwarting + damage done to us—in our bodies, communities, and across generations.”
📖 Go deeper in The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism
“What our people really need is a redress of the thwarting + damage done to us—in our bodies, communities, and across generations.”
📖 Go deeper in The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism
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What looks like a fight over names is really about how language lands in our bodies.
📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
🌀 Black Octopus Society: blackoctopussociety.com
🔗 NPR: www.npr.org/sections/goa...
#QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism
📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
🌀 Black Octopus Society: blackoctopussociety.com
🔗 NPR: www.npr.org/sections/goa...
#QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism
September 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
What looks like a fight over names is really about how language lands in our bodies.
📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
🌀 Black Octopus Society: blackoctopussociety.com
🔗 NPR: www.npr.org/sections/goa...
#QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism
📖 The Quaking of America: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
🌀 Black Octopus Society: blackoctopussociety.com
🔗 NPR: www.npr.org/sections/goa...
#QuakingOfAmerica #SomaticAbolitionism
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We’re in a time that demands courage, connection, and clarity.
Join us Oct 3–5 in Stellenbosch for the Global Anti-Racism Summit. Online tickets are 30% off:
thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/
#TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit
Join us Oct 3–5 in Stellenbosch for the Global Anti-Racism Summit. Online tickets are 30% off:
thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/
#TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit
September 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We’re in a time that demands courage, connection, and clarity.
Join us Oct 3–5 in Stellenbosch for the Global Anti-Racism Summit. Online tickets are 30% off:
thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/
#TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit
Join us Oct 3–5 in Stellenbosch for the Global Anti-Racism Summit. Online tickets are 30% off:
thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/
#TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit
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The Global Anti-Racism Summit is coming Oct 3–5 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. 🌍
Online tickets are now 30% off—don’t miss this global conversation:
thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/
#TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit
Online tickets are now 30% off—don’t miss this global conversation:
thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/
#TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit
September 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Global Anti-Racism Summit is coming Oct 3–5 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. 🌍
Online tickets are now 30% off—don’t miss this global conversation:
thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/
#TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit
Online tickets are now 30% off—don’t miss this global conversation:
thesocialjusticeagency.org/checkout/
#TruthTraumaToll #GlobalAntiRacismSummit
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On Oct 30, I’ll be in Seattle with Bayo Akomolafe + Orland Bishop for Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise—an evening on Black identity, ancestral connection + healing.
📍 Town Hall Seattle | 7:30 PM
🎟️ lnkd.in/gf4G5DqU
#ThreeBlackMen #HealingAndLiberation #SeattleEvents
📍 Town Hall Seattle | 7:30 PM
🎟️ lnkd.in/gf4G5DqU
#ThreeBlackMen #HealingAndLiberation #SeattleEvents
October 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
On Oct 30, I’ll be in Seattle with Bayo Akomolafe + Orland Bishop for Three Black Men: A Journey into the Magical Otherwise—an evening on Black identity, ancestral connection + healing.
📍 Town Hall Seattle | 7:30 PM
🎟️ lnkd.in/gf4G5DqU
#ThreeBlackMen #HealingAndLiberation #SeattleEvents
📍 Town Hall Seattle | 7:30 PM
🎟️ lnkd.in/gf4G5DqU
#ThreeBlackMen #HealingAndLiberation #SeattleEvents
“The sperm hasn’t hit the egg yet.” We’re still seeding—still learning to stay in the work when it gets messy.
🌊 Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite
📖 Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #BlackOctopusSociety 🐙
🌊 Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite
📖 Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #BlackOctopusSociety 🐙
October 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“The sperm hasn’t hit the egg yet.” We’re still seeding—still learning to stay in the work when it gets messy.
🌊 Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite
📖 Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #BlackOctopusSociety 🐙
🌊 Train with us: resmaa.mn.co/invite
📖 Read: centralrecoverypress.com/product/the-...
#QuakingOfAmerica #BlackOctopusSociety 🐙