Octave Book Readings

RAINE MAY

LIFE GAVE ME LEMONS. I SQUEEZED THE FUCK OUT OF THEM.
seemed wasteful not to.

Turns out, surviving things makes you curious. About who you were. Who you became. And who the hell you're becoming next.

So I write things. Build things. Question things. And occasionally follow an idea way further than I intended.

See what I'm up to →
FOR WHY? Yes, I know that's grammatically incorrect. I've spent a ridiculous amount of my life asking questions.
Some are big. HOW DO WE BECOME WHO WE ARE? And how the hell do we lose ourselves along the way? Some are personal. why do people keep asking me "what I am?"
Some are probably things I should have figured out by now. WHAT DOES SELF-LOVE ACTUALLY MEAN? What does "being present" look like?
Why do we stay in things we've clearly outgrown?
Some are about the strange things humans collectively decided were normal. WHY DO WE DOOM SCROLL? when we KNOW it makes us feel like shit?
Why are we obsessed with people we've never met?
Why do we worship celebrities?
And then there are the rabbit holes. IS ASTROLOGY ACTUALLY TELLING US SOMETHING, or are humans just really good at finding patterns?
WHY CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT ALIENS?
ARE WE LIVING IN A SIMULATION? and if we are... that's kind of fucking cool. Life's a game? Okay. What are the rules?
Did I accidentally choose hard mode?
Then there are the things you're apparently not supposed to bring up at dinner. WAIT... THE GOVERNMENT LIED ABOUT WHAT NOW? Are we just... not gonna talk about that?
WHAT EVEN IS THE MOON,
REALLY?

Anyway. I'm fascinated by all of it.

People. Relationships. Identity. Consciousness. Culture. The universe. And all the things we believe without remembering who taught us to believe them.

Basically anything that makes me stop and think:

Wait. Why DO we believe that?

But underneath all those rabbit holes, there's one question I keep coming back to:

HOW MUCH OF WHO WE THINK WE ARE
IS ACTUALLY US —
AND HOW MUCH WAS HANDED TO US?

By our families. Our relationships. Our culture. What happened to us. What was expected of us. Who we learned to be just to make it through certain chapters.

And what happens when we start questioning all of it?

I DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS. BUT I'VE LEARNED TO ASK BETTER QUESTIONS. That's pretty much how we got here.

SO... I MADE SOME THINGS.

This is what happens when I follow the questions.
Daily Practice OCTAVE

This one started with a question: What if we actually spent time getting to know ourselves?

Octave is a daily reflection practice for getting to know the one person you'll spend your entire life with.
You.

Discover Your Next Octave →
Octave
The Channel INNER REIGN

Come inside my head. It gets weird in here.

A YouTube channel where I talk about the things I can't stop thinking about — relationships, identity, self-worth, spirituality, culture, becoming, and whatever rabbit hole I'm currently down.

Come for my inner thoughts. Maybe leave thinking a little differently about your own.

Coming Soon
Inner Reign
The Book MAKE IT REIGN

Turns out, some lemons become books.

For the woman rebuilding after the thing she thought would break her.

Read the Book →
Make It Reign by Adrianne May
The Shop SHOP RAINE MAY

Wear what you believe.

Things I've said, things I believe, and things that were apparently destined to end up on a T-shirt.

Coming Soon

I DIDN'T SET OUT
TO BUILD A BRAND.

Honestly, I wasn't trying to build any of this.

I was trying to figure myself out.

Life had changed. I had changed. And somewhere along the way, I realized I didn't actually know who I was anymore — outside of the roles I'd played, the people I'd loved, the things I'd survived, and all the versions of me I'd needed to be.

So I started asking questions.
(Shocking, I know.)

I wrote. I thought. I went down rabbit holes. I learned things. Unlearned things. Changed my mind about things I once would've sworn I knew.

And every once in a while, one of those questions became something.

A book. An idea. A conversation. An app. A whole other rabbit hole.

I guess that's what Raine May is. Not a perfectly packaged version of me. Just a place for everything I'm curious about, everything I'm creating, and everything I'm still figuring out.

I'm not here because I figured out life.
I'm here because I got really interested in living mine.

We're allowed to change. MORE ABOUT ME →

THINGS ON
MY MIND

It's crowded in here.

Essays, questions, rabbit holes, and things I can't stop thinking about.

01 Identity

Why do people keep asking me "what I am?"

coming soon →
02 Relationships

What if you don't need closure?

coming soon →
03 Curiosity

Okay, but what if we ARE living in a simulation?

coming soon →
04 Astrology

I don't need astrology to predict my future. That's not why I love it.

coming soon →
05 Culture

Why the hell do we worship celebrities?

coming soon →
more
to come. I'M ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING.
You are allowed to question who you've been. You are allowed to change your mind. You are allowed to want more. You are allowed to begin again. You are allowed to question what you've been told. You are allowed to say what you actually think.
QUESTION EVERYTHING.
What you were taught. What everyone calls normal. What you believe. Even yourself.

Not because everything is bullshit.

Because you're allowed to ask "For Why?"

Stay curious. Think for yourself. Say the thing. Change your mind when you learn something new.
YOU'RE NOT A FINISHED PRODUCT.
thank God.

You get to keep discovering who you are.

still curious? Good. Me too.

There's more of you to meet.

01 Discover Octave A daily practice for getting to know yourself. Discover Your Next Octave → 02 Explore Inner Reign Come inside my head. It gets weird in here. Coming Soon 03 Read Make It Reign For the woman rebuilding after the thing she thought would break her. Read the Book → 04 Shop Raine May Things I've said, things I believe, and things that apparently belong on a T-shirt. Coming Soon