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Ep.34 The Art of Healing with Sunshine Okubo
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Sunshine Okubo specializes in working with individuals or groups of all ages, who have experienced mental, physical, sexual abuse, major traumas, PTSD, ADHD, depression, grief, addictions, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and unworthiness, etc.
Sunshine, herself had to overcome all of the above in her own healing journey. Sunshine is able to connect with you in a way that makes you feel safe, heard and understood. She allows you to speak your truth with no judgment. She is all about self love and helping you reconnect to your inner light on a completely different dimension. Teaching you how to heal yourself, unconditionally!
Sunshine’s workshops consist of all different topics and how we can learn to love ourselves. She also teaches us how to become conscious on how we react to situations from our heart space instead of our fears.
Sunshine offers her knowledge and experience in a simple, easy to understand way with fun and unconditional love. When you experience her offerings, you leave shifted, activated, balanced and completely at peace and in love with exactly who you are. Bringing home tools to continue to help heal yourself. She believes we are all here to nourish and inspire each other! One beautiful soul at a time!
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Welcome back to the Gen Eye Podcast, where we have conversations about the human experience. Well, hello there. Today we sit down with Sunshine Akubo. Actually, this was recorded two weeks ago. And today's date is March 11th, 2026, which aligns with the date that Sunshine is starting a new project. Bit about Sunshine. She specializes in working with individuals and groups of all ages who have experienced mental, physical, sexual abuse, major traumas, PTSD, ADHD, depression, grief, addiction, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and unworthiness. Sunshine herself had to overcome all of the above in her own healing journey, which we touch on in this conversation. And as always, we close out the call with Bob Sina. Thank you for being here today and for showing up. Enjoy. Well, welcome, Sunshine.
SPEAKER_02Thank you. I shared each other.
SPEAKER_03Yes, let's just stare at each other.
SPEAKER_01It's been a minute. We're gonna look into each other's eyes. Oh, I love it. I feel the love.
SPEAKER_03I can't wait a minute. I just want to I just want to talk to you. And I expressed like how it kind of sucks we're doing this on Zoom because I just want to hug you. Yes, but thank you for the staring in the eyes. As my last two episodes within the last two weeks, it was all about the eyes.
SPEAKER_02Oh wow, that's so fun.
SPEAKER_03And I think at the end, one was an iridologist. Okay. That the she reads the iris. And another one, yeah, we spoke about the eyes. But anyways, it was quite interesting that you suggested that.
SPEAKER_01Beautiful synchronicities. Love it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Love it, love it. So what's going on in your world these days? Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I've been actually hosting beautiful people here in my home in Olachua. I love that I am getting an overflow of beautiful beings coming to visit Michael Singer, our friend, our teacher, one of our teachers. And I'm also been hosting friends from Long Island, New York, where I used to live before I came here for my whole entire life until the universe was like, nope, you're going to Olachua. And so I just had two goddesses this week last they left on Friday. And then I have another goddess coming on Thursday from Long Island to get some sunshine. Some sunshine love.
SPEAKER_03So why don't we start there? Because I mean you've you've lived in Alachua now for over a year.
SPEAKER_01It'll be a year April 18. Wow. Yeah. That's but I I visited twice before I moved here.
SPEAKER_03Just twice. Just twice. That's all it took. That's all it takes. That's all it that's all it takes.
SPEAKER_02That's all it took.
SPEAKER_03So describe your first experience being introduced to that community and how did that come about? And we're talking about the temple of the universe in Alachua, Florida.
SPEAKER_01Yes, yes. So I actually received messages from my soul, and the message was temple or church. And I listen very well to my soul. I have learned to listen completely without hesitation. And that was August 2024. And so I did a little research. I actually thought, oh, I am going to have a church of love or a temple of love that I was going to be the head person of that. And so I was actually looking at properties, looking at churches to purchase, and quickly moved away from that. And I remembered that there was a temple of universe down in Florida. And I Googled it to see if it was still there. I remembered reading the book, The Surrender Experiment. And so I emailed them and they emailed me back and said, Yes, we are still here. It's free to come visit. Here are a bunch of Airbnbs that are affiliated with our beautiful community. So that was August. And I was like, great, thank you so much. And then I hosted a retreat in New Hampshire, then one in Connecticut, and then one in Sedona. When I went to Sedona, there was only one person that I did not know on that whole retreat. And that one person just came back from the Temple of the Universe. So I said, okay, this was another sign. So the minute I got back home, I booked one of those little Airbnbs. And I came in December 2024. And I came and I observed. And my body was vibrating, you know, driving down 156, you know, and I was like, oh, this is something special. And then I went to the tiny home that our friend Gary owns and operates, and immediately became fast friends with him. And then he said, Why don't you come to a Kirtan tonight? hosted by my friends Sam and Lucy. And I was like, okay. And we went to their beautiful home. And the minute I walked in, I felt so much love from every single person. And I was only here maybe an hour. And I was just, and then the minute they started singing, oh my goodness, tears were coming. I was like, oh, the shedding has started. And obviously fell in love with the community immediately. And then went up to the temple of the universe and fell in love with everybody that was in the temple, too. And of course, Michael Singer. And then he had his talk the next day. I was just so high on life to begin with. They said, any questions that I raised my hand immediately, and I just poured out my heart of how much gratitude and love I have in this moment right here, this experience. It was amazing. And then I went home. I went back to my community on Long Island and said, okay, that was great. And then my soul said, they need some sunshine. And I go, oh, okay. So I called Gary and I said, can I bring my magic table with me and serve the community? He's like, let's do it. And so I got in my bliss bus and I put my magic table in there and I drove down and I set up the table outside because now it's January 2025. And again, I'm from New York. So it was 76 degrees. I was not going indoors. So I set the table out on the field and 28 people. I served 28 people. And it was such a beautiful experience. And I was so grateful for it. And I said, okay, I did my job. I'm leaving. That's it. I'm gone. I did what I had to do. And I went home. A couple weeks later, my soul spoke to me again and she said, Alatua. And I said, Okay, you're removing the whole house. You are purging the whole house, sunshine, and moving to a latchwa. And I said, Okay. I said, okay. And I called Gary immediately. I said, I'm coming. So I told Gary that I needed a bigger house. And he said, I have the perfect house for you. I have the Hanuman house. And Hanuman is a beautiful Hindu deity that is in service. And he just finished, he actually wasn't even done finishing up the back part of the house. But I'm I sold everything, everything that I owned except the magic table and my crafts, of course. And everything that fit in the bliss bus was all that I was bringing. And I was here by April 18th. Moved on in.
SPEAKER_03And then we met just shortly after. But there was a synchronicity. There's another synchronicity that happened before you left Long Island.
SPEAKER_01Which one was that? There's been so many. Oh yeah, that actually, yes. Yep. So what happened was I just got off the phone with Gary. I called my realtor and I got a ding that I had a new client for Wednesday and didn't think anything of it. And the client came in and she she goes, Oh my goodness, this house is so beautiful. And I said, Oh, thank you, but it's for sale. I said, Do you want to buy a house? And she said, No, I just bought mine. I just came back. I just moved from Florida. And I said, Oh, where from? And she said, Alachua. And I said, Of course you're from Alachua, you know, because it was totally aligned. Every single thing, every experience was completely aligned to get me to where I am today in this moment. And it's Alachua.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, what a magical little town. And we had just met. I can't remember if we met just before you moved or right after you moved. Because I came a few times that year. Since that yeah, since April. I was there a few times. Yeah. So that was really beautiful.
SPEAKER_01Very magical. And it's still magical because we're still in each other's lives.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Staring into each other's eyes.
SPEAKER_03Yes. And experiencing your bliss bus. I mean, that was incredible. I mean, you know, just for anybody listening, whoever plans on visit visiting Alachua and the Temple of the Universe, Sunshine gives like little tours of you know the Santa Fe River. It's a Santa Fe River, right? Or no, the spring.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the spring.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. So we've gone tubing, and the last time I went, we went tubing, which was really cool and fun. And yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I like to be in the the Sunshine Springs tour guide. I've got plenty of tubes and plenty of love to bring every, you know, at least eight people that could fit in the bus. And the Bliss bus has fairies and rainbows and beautiful sayings to nurture and inspire whoever's looking at the bus.
SPEAKER_03So have your vehicles evolved over the years from when you were experiencing pretty rough time in your life to where you are today. I can see that, you know, I could just imagine how that evolved for you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. My first vehicle when sunshine appeared was a little red Prius, and I painted sunflowers all over it. Yeah. And then I said, oh, I need I need more space. I need more space. So I upgraded to the bus, which is really a minivan, but I call it the Bliss Bus. Yeah. So beautiful.
SPEAKER_03So I truly appreciate the work that you do out there in the world, sunshine, because it's so needed now more than ever, with people just waking up to a new reality and realizing that a lot of the life that we've been living was just an illusion and a bunch of crap that we bought into. A lot of conditioning and doing that inner work, it's it's seriously no joke. It's no joke. And if anyone can resonate with that, quote, would be you.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03So would you like to take us to a place where my journey? Your journey.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Your journey before the light and love and to a time where possibly you were really struggling. And the concept of deep self-love and just acceptance for yourself just didn't exist.
SPEAKER_01It didn't exist at all. And it started age two, you know, that I can recall. You know, I remember actually leaving my body at age two because my mother was beating me. And I remember my soul leaving my body and allowing the body to be in pain, but my soul was not. And it was a beautiful way of protecting myself, my soul. But yeah, so it's that's when I knew I had some magic in me, but it was literally beaten back inside of me, you know, how everybody says we shove things inside of us. Well, I shoved more than amazing experiences. I had my mother, my father, my brother, and my stepmother all were very unkind to me. And I suffered through physical, mental, and sexual abuse. My first husband was my rapist for three years. I actually left my parents at 16. They were actually separated, and I was left on my own with my mother, who was my biggest abuser at that moment. And I decided to become homeless instead. I took my power back at 16 and removed myself. I did sleep on benches and cars and sheds for a good six months, and then my aunt took me in, my father first, and then my aunt. I took myself through school. I became an A student. I removed any drugs and alcohol that was in my life. I had body issues, body shame, so much. I when I was married to my first husband, because I've had three, I lost a child because I was thrown down the stairs pregnant, you know. So you can name so many things that I've been through. And I actually believe that I had to experience everything that I experienced to become who I am today, and that they were my biggest teachers, and I am beyond grateful for the experiences. And it's pretty powerful. It's pretty powerful that I had such a beautiful rebirth when I finally figured it out. When I was like, okay, I actually was in a car accident in 2014, and I removed my soul from my body, and that's when that was like, oh, I I remember I could do this. I can I remember that I have some type of magic inside me. And because we all have this magic, and I started to heal myself, I started to research things and started reading books and started really going to yoga and learning about yoga. I mean, also a yoga instructor, and really learning the true meaning of yoga, you know, and just really going deep and going dark and healing myself. I didn't know there were other people, you know, around like me. So my healing modality, I say, is crocheting because I really, I really started crocheting, and that's when I became present in the now moment. And feelings were coming up, and I was feeling all my feelings, and I was allowing them to come out of my body without any judgment. And when all those feelings came out, I was feeling lighter, and I was feeling more love towards myself and others. Then the healing modality was found out through somebody else. I was rubbing their back. And when that was discovered, I was rubbing everybody. You know, I was like, Do you want to feel this? I was like, come over, I have something I want you to feel, you know. And I was giving it away, and I still, you know, I give I give it away as much as I can because I want every single person on this earth to feel this good because we can, because we can. If I can heal, everybody can heal, you know. And I had, you know, I was diagnosed with all these different ailments and like, no, I am not claiming anything anymore. I am no longer the victim, I am no longer the survivor, I am the thriver. Watch me, you know, and that's what I teach now. I teach that to people. I teach the guidance, that I teach the self-love, you know, and coming to this now moment, you know, the consciousness, the soul.
SPEAKER_03That's an incredible story of resilience. And it's not as if you were in a place dissociating. And well, possibly maybe you maybe you were at one time, I don't know. But it seems to me that it's evident that when you say you sat and you felt the feelings, you sat and felt them, no matter how terrible and how terrible. gut-wrenching those feelings were. And for those of you listening, if you have the opportunity to come and meet Sunshine, like she just radiates this beauty that just it's just incredible. It's just incredible. Thank you. Truly incredible. And I'd love for you to share a truth about healing that others need to hear that might make them feel uncomfortable. Okay, it's not all it's not all bliss and love. Rainbows and sunshine. Before the sunshine, you know, you're it's it's the mud and like the gardening and it's hard to connect with that aspect of yourself. And sometimes you know you can even like I know from my own experience, it's you know a friend of mine kept sending me quotes and videos and things like that to try to lighten me up. And I was just in the depths of darkness. And I was like screw off like this isn't for me. You know what I mean? And I just wasn't there to receive and it's like who am I? Like I probably won't be alive in two months. That's what I was thinking. Like what's the point?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And but what's one of those truths about healing that people probably don't want to hear because it's going to make them feel uncomfortable. But I feel it's really important to share that because yeah when you go through that depth of healing you can feel like you've hit rock bottom for the third or fourth time and it's like I'm never coming out of this. But that that's when you're on the brink. That's when you're on the brink where that wound just like shoots open right yeah yeah got chills when you said that yeah it's I I like to say crying is love.
SPEAKER_01Crying is love for that beautiful little light inside of you that beautiful soul I'm a big believer of the inner child healing any type that where you can go and get to the root of the the trauma. I mean we all have traumas but most of it the real truth the real trauma is rooted inside of you and it gets branched off of other little things but yeah go hardcore go into the darkness go deep into the darkness it might be scary but the minute you start peeling the layers off and feeling these feelings and you don't have to dissect the feelings you don't have to be like oh well I was raped you know for three years no I've I am feeling shame I am feeling guilt it doesn't matter it could have been you know you stole a piece of candy that's feeling guilt and shame you know so you don't have to associate it with the actual trauma just feel the feelings and get them out of your body and it's it's a roller coaster too it's not just a linear thing. It's you know one day you're like you know and the next day you're like ah you know and and it's allowing yourself to be comfortable in your uncomfortableness is key. And I love triggers trigger me all you want because they're medicine I I believe the triggers are medicine that triggers are love. Triggers are showing you exactly what you need to heal in this moment. You know I'm really good with my triggers now I I see it I pause pausing is so huge too and I go okay and I'll feel whatever I need to feel if I feel sadness I will shed a tear. If I feel you know mad I'll you know maybe scream out loud you know uh get it out of my body you know or I'll dance or whatever but it's important to feel your feelings that's all it is it's a moment and it's an experience and I think they're all amazing experiences now that I've become sunshine we I held a breath work here Sunday and very close with my music I just love music music is such a beautiful healing modality in itself and so while I'm doing this breath work I have certain songs that will trigger somebody the whole session ended everybody was sitting up starting to you know blow their nose because there was crying involved and all of a sudden the power went off and I went yeah and it was like what's going on like the power turned off exactly what I was done with my music and they were like okay Sunsha and then I turned it into a lesson I go see I didn't even think that it's a negative thing. I thought it was amazing that it happened right as soon as I was done playing the music that we were done doing this session. Like it turned off at the perfect time and then we just went into share and then it turned on and I was like yay this you know the power is back on 10 minutes later you know but it's all in deep going dark is huge. It's huge. And again we don't have to dissect why we're feeling these feelings because that's going into your mind. You have to get out of your mind and into your body into your heart I like to say because that's where we shoved everything down right that's where our scars are and we are the ones who can open and close our heart we are the ones to do it. And I'm not afraid of getting hurt because I know it's temporary. I know it's temporary and anybody who is projecting onto me, I send them love because I believe we are all traumatized little children in adult bodies and we're all just trying to heal. That's it. That's it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah love how you brought that up because I see that now that when someone is feeling discomfort I don't see them as you know a 70 year old person. I see them as like this five year old little girl or you know a 50 year old man. I see them as a three year old little boy. And it's quite interesting and it really transforms how you see people and I mean of course I get stuck where it's like judgment comes up and then but once you've been in that dark place and you're faced with a challenge it's so much easier to flip it and to see that it's a blessing. What is it here to teach me? And that's one of the things I go to what is this here to teach me there was someone at work that just really pushed my buttons and I said this man is here to teach us something because he just doesn't do it to me. He does it to somebody else and it takes quite a bit for it to to get to me. So it was quite interesting and I said to him and I said you know this man is here to teach us something so I like I'm really eager to learn I get this lesson over with and he just kind of looked at me like what are you talking about? But I think it's just really beautiful that it can be turned around and you hit the nail right on the head when you said that the trauma it's hidden deep within us. It's not yeah it's not the object or the subject that triggered you outside of you because most times it's oh I can't go there because it's triggering or that person is triggering or that no you're doing it to yourself. You're doing it to yourself it's all subjective your emotions what you're feeling and it took me a while to understand that. But once I grasp that concept it totally changed things. And I mean I there's times where I still get triggered like even when I come visit the temple sometimes there's like little things like little nitpicky thing I'll I'll express this but I'm grateful because there's still those little shitty little things inside that still pop up and what a better way to deal with this than when you're at the temple and when you're when you can sit and have a conversation with sunshine on her girlfriend couch with a tea you know so it's um it's incredible but once you once you I find that it was like it's like an unconscious agreement that you have with yourself. It's not like you consciously say I'm doing this work for the rest of my life you look back and you're like wow I've really dedicated myself to doing this work.
SPEAKER_01Yeah it ain't all right well sunshine but it's you know it can get to that I mean because I don't think any situation is good or bad. I just think it's it is what it is you know so I don't I don't label anything and such a beautiful new practice like I wanted to say something and I totally blew went right out of my head oh I remember I was my biggest abuser I was my biggest abuser because I was holding on to the stories and the stories aren't even happening anymore you know so I was feeding myself trauma I was feeding my mind my body and my soul unhealthy habits and unhealthy words and unhealthy stories and that's when I was in that accident you know I was the one who was keeping myself down nobody else was I was repeating patterns and I was doing things to myself like gaining a hundred pounds you know and torturing myself with the stories so the minute that I changed the perspective the minute I said oh I'm the one who's doing this to me I started to learn how to talk to myself better I started to learn how to nourish my body better. I started to learn how to nourish my soul better and I fed them love I fed my body mind and soul love instead of not love you know and now it's such a practice that it's my new habit it's my new habit I don't even flinch when somebody asks me to have a piece of cake with them I'll usually say no thank you because I know that it's not good for my body. I know what sugar does to my body and I'll say no thank you. No thank you and so it can become a beautiful new habit and it's not even practice anymore because I have it down pet. You know once it'll blue moon I'll go okay but then I'll be you know right back on it. I'll forgive myself because I did nothing wrong. I was only doing the best that I could at any given moment and then I get right back into practice of nourishing and inspiring myself. And then that just overflows to everybody else.
SPEAKER_03I love how you touched on the fact that you were your biggest abuser because we are our biggest bully we are our own worst critic and this is like the core of Mickey's teachings on samskaras and what we cling to and it's not just the bad stuff it's the good stuff too but it's that incessant chatter that we identify with and once we start moving away from that identity then the conditioning starts to fall away right some people some people in your life might fall away with that too and that's okay we wouldn't some habits some habits that don't serve you anymore just fall away the foods that don't serve you anymore you just stop craving them like it's it's incredible you know I'm still waiting for that to happen with you know barbecue Fritos and maybe a couple of other things but there have been some foods that have just fallen away and that I no longer really desired anymore.
SPEAKER_01And it's just yeah well I like to call it a revolving door you know everything is temporary you know our bodies are temporary you know our emotions our feelings are people places and things everything is temporary except for our beautiful soul you know and I love to practice that I love to practice that it's a beautiful thing it sure is yeah and everybody is at their own you know state of healing you know my son is going through his healing now and he called me this morning and he said mom I want to tell you something and I said okay what do you want to tell me he goes I'm reading the book the power of now and I was like my heart just was like fluttering around the room because I mean there's no words no words you know because we all have to do it in our own time you know his mother is sunshine and I can't shove it down his throat you know he had to heal whatever he needed to heal to get to this moment right here right now you know and I left his father when he was a year and a half years old the minute my son witnessed me getting thrown down the stairs I turned around and I looked at my child my innocent baby and I saw the pain in his eyes I immediately took that child and left his father and but I was also the people pleaser so I removed myself thinking that he would never touch his child which he didn't thank God but he did instill the words the mental abuse and the emotional abuse and you know here I thought I was allowing my son to see his father because I wanted to be neutral I wanted to be love and honestly I didn't know about any of this until a few years ago because my son closed his throat he couldn't speak he couldn't talk about anything because he was scared because he was scared you know the minute he started to voice his abuse is when he started to heal you know and immediately I was already in a beautiful healing space but you know the ego came in and first I was like oh my God I was a horrible mother and then boom I completely removed that story and I said no I did the best that I could at this moment you know and from what I my experiences were and I knew that we signed contracts for our experiences so he signed up to be the child of this gentleman and I was his mother you know and he had to experience whatever he had to experience to get him to where he is today in this moment.
SPEAKER_03And he's reading the power of now that's incredible that the inner work that you're doing it's going to those that you're closest with and that's just really beautiful because I've seen that take place in my life as well it's just and it happens in its own time and I mean there was a time where it's like oh you gotta read this or you gotta see this or and now it's just I don't even say anything anymore. And when you stop and you just realize that it just happens all on its own. I've seen shifts in my son and my youngest daughter as well which you've met she came to the temple she's been a couple times. Yeah and it's nothing I could have ever imagined my life being like ever I never even knew people healed like what what what was that? I mean if someone said that to me 20 years ago it's like what are you talking about? You go to the doctors and you get pills and then you just go on for day like that's you know my first husband was physically abusive verbally abusive and something my my children witnessed right and but that's just it go to the doctors I feel a little depressed and it's went on you know and people oh you're so strong you're so brave and it's like yeah I guess I am bullshit I wasn't I was I did what I had to do at that time and what I knew I didn't know very much. It was in my early 20s didn't know very much. So I would say for about 16 17 years I was on medication and when I decided to come off the medication it was maybe nine months later is when the shit hit the fan in my life again which was in 2016 and then fall on your knees you get back up and then again it was like two or three blows in a row right not on medication and I'm like I'm not gonna survive this I'm not gonna survive you now I know and it's it's incredible that the resilience we have as human beings and we really underestimate what we're capable of achieving.
SPEAKER_01Yeah and I'm not talking about status I'm not talking about financial success I'm talking about what's deeply rooted within you that grounds you to this earth what connects you to people around you to communities to that outside this world like it's yeah we are limitless and you know being in the now moment you're fearless too right so it's it's such a beautiful I am I am blessed I am blessed with every single experience I'm just flowing and I am Grateful. Of course, I get pings a couple of times here and there, but I believe that when it does try to stick on me, I giggle at it, you know, and I laugh and I go, good try. Yeah. I see what you're doing, universe. It's not gonna affect me, you know, and it's such a beautiful, different, like I completely removed the old me, completely removed her. I burned everything, baby pictures. I was an emancipated minor at 16. I burned all the court papers. And actually, my son said to me, Are you gonna remove me too? And I said, Maybe I did it. But I said, you know, I am at a different vibration in right here, right now, and I am not going to what's the word? I'm not gonna lower my vibration for anybody. I'm not putting myself back into the box, I'm not going to people please anymore. I am going to stand in my truth because I am sunshine. I might be sunshine and rainbows, but I am sunshine and I will burn you with the truth too. So if I feel I said I said to my son, you know, he called me, and you could feel that he was in a low vibration. And I said, Did you check yourself before you called me? And he said, What do you mean? I we had this discussion prior. I said to him, I feel, because that's where we have to feel from. I feel that before you call me, you put on armor to protect yourself from this sunshine and rainbow thing, you know? And he said, you know what? You're right. You're right. I am protecting myself from the shiny thing. He goes, I'll call you back in five minutes. And he hacks up the phone and he calls me back and he goes, Okay, I unarmored myself. I am going to feel my feelings. And it's such a beautiful, it's a completely new relationship that I have with my son. You know, he knows that he can talk to me about anything and everything, and there's no judgment. But he also knows that I will tell him if he is repeating a pattern and that he is the one who could solve his problems because he's the one who's making the problems. So such a gift.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. It's such a gift when we can share that. And when it's received, like I mean, for him to hang up and then call you back, it's that's incredible. And it, you know, it can be it can be triggering, I guess, for some people who just haven't quite figured it out on how to like self-regulate and to show up in the world to see someone who's just so fully in their power who doesn't compromise their integrity for anyone, not even their son.
SPEAKER_01Not even myself.
SPEAKER_03And truly, that's a that's a superpower. And when you get to that point, it can trigger others.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_03That's right.
SPEAKER_01And I believe that people who are ready to start the work will be divinely guided to amazing beings that are teaching this, you know. And I also believe that the other people are who are not ready yet run from us, you know, and that's okay too. That's okay too. I send the blob, wah, love you, see you in a couple of years, you know.
SPEAKER_03Yes, yes, I'll see you in a couple years. And you know what? There's some times where I'll chuckle. Someone will make a comment, and instead of being offended, I just kind of I just kind of chuckle. Yeah, because I'm like, yeah, it's it's all good. It's all good. It's all good. Yeah, it is quite funny.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, someone actually said in the temple the other night, you know, they were sharing and mentioned that they didn't want to feel weird. And then, of course, I'm the next one he calls on, and I said, I am embracing all of my weirdness. And of course, everybody started laughing. But yeah, I'm the one who you drive by my house and there's a fairy in the middle of the yard, you know, and lights and mushrooms, and it's just an expression of me being happy and outside. And if it brings somebody a smile, perfect. If it doesn't, you have the right to just drive on by, right? Absolutely. Yeah. I did a mural on my fence in New York, and one of a grandchild's came over to my house once. It's like three years after the mural was done. And he said, You know, I just want to tell you that every time I pass your fence, I just feel so happy. I call it the happy fence. And I said, That's amazing. I'm so happy that you feel happy. And he goes, but my grandmother calls it the tacky fence. And I just laughed. I said, and she's okay, it's okay for her to call it that, you know. And it had, you know, I painted a whole garden across my fence during COVID, you know. And uh it was such a beautiful fence. Somebody painted over it though. They painted the fence white. So funny, but that's okay because it's not my house, right? We own nothing.
SPEAKER_03I remember when we made that trip, we did that road trip with Yoli to Casadega. Yeah, we wow, that was like super incredible. When you talk about like listening to music, like music is your your thing, and yeah, just listening to music with the two of you and singing, and just that whole day was just truly incredible. Like the number sequence 444, yeah, the cafe that we stumbled upon that was just like from somewhere other than Florida. Yeah. And you know, it was really beautiful how your creativity and how you express it with the paintings on the Bliss bus.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Someone rolled down their window when we were at a light and thanked you. And it's like the amount of smiles on people's faces, or even, you know, even if it's an old lady saying, that's tacky. Yeah, you got their attention.
SPEAKER_01You got it, right? You know, exactly.
SPEAKER_03It was really beautiful.
SPEAKER_01Thank you. Yeah. I remember somebody said something in the coffee shop, right? I think she liked my outfit, and you said, Oh, you should go see the her bus.
SPEAKER_03Yes, because I believe you were in all purple that day. And it was freaking cold for four. It was really cold and windy. And eventually I'm like, oh, I want to go to the beach, and it's like, yeah, no beach today.
SPEAKER_01No beach today. Yeah. Yeah, I had my crocheted purple sweater and hat on. Yes. Yeah. So cute. Yeah, that was a beautiful day. And uh, you got to see where my next mural is happening.
SPEAKER_03Yes, and the crazy thing is that you paint sunflowers.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And when we went to Casadega, what's the theme of Casadega? What is their symbol? It's a friggin' sunflower. I mean, there were there were paintings of sunflowers everywhere. Like, you can't make this shit up. Like you truly, you truly cannot make this stuff up. And you're like, I'm coming back. I'm coming back. I'm I'm doing like a retreat weekend and I'm coming back. And you did a few days later. You went, you went back.
SPEAKER_01And I said I was doing the mural because they had the they had the poster up saying, whatchamacallit, that we they were having a fundraiser for that mural that weekend. So I was like, I'm painting this mural. I'm gonna do my I'm gonna do this weekend, and I'm gonna paint this mural. And uh, you know, we were vibrating, right? In that that little shop there. And back that back room. Yeah, yeah. So I was like, okay, I've been here before. My soul has been here, you know, in a past life. Um, and I need to come back and do this. And I reserved, you know, the hotel the next day. I drove there Friday morning, and I said to the shop owner or the shop person, I need the cards to, well, I need her phone number, who's in charge of the mural. And she was like, okay, she handed me the card. I text the woman, hi, I'm Sunshine Okubo. I'm gonna be painting your sunflower mural like I own the place. We've had this conversation, she laughed. Now she's laughing about it, but she said, okay, weirdo, basically. And said no. We had a board of trustees pick out the artist that applied for this position. And it took us a year to figure out which who the artist was. But if you want to donate, come to the fundraiser on Saturday. So I said, okay, perfect. I was told no, thank you for the opportunity. But, you know, I showed up to that fundraiser in my sunflower sweater. I crocheted and my sunflower pants and my sunflower earrings. And I walked right up to her and I was like, hi, I'm sunshine. And she was like, Oh, you're sunshine? I said, Yeah. And of course, I got the first parking spot, you know, so everybody could see the sunflowers on my Bliss bus. And then I donated, and then I left. When back they had moon ceremony, something that night, and then they had something the next morning. And I'll cut to cut to it. I was sitting, they had a church ceremony, and I was sitting in the pew and I got a text. Sunshine, we'd like to talk to you. Would you like to meet? And I said, Well, we could either meet now or by phone because I'm actually cutting the trip short. And she goes, Please meet now. So I said, Okay. So I just got up from the pew and I just started walking. I didn't know where I was going. I just started walking and I hear, Sunshine, we're in here. And they were in one of the Victorian houses with the wraparound porch. And I walked in, there's these three elders, and I just spoke and told them my experiences. And, you know, by the end of the conversation, they said, Can you write up a proposal? And I said, Of course I can. And I sent them the proposal within three hours. It took me two hours to get home, but I had the proposal done. And even drew something up, color and everything. And the next week I was chosen to do this beautiful mural at Casadega.
SPEAKER_03That's so magical. So when is it that you start on this mural? March 11th. What's that?
SPEAKER_01March 11th.
SPEAKER_03Wow. Yeah. You said it's gonna take about 15 days for you to complete.
SPEAKER_01I took 15 days off of my regular sunshine, you know, life over here in Alachua. I blocked the calendar. So, but I'm pro the number seven is coming into mind that it will take me seven days to do. Incredible. Yeah. But they did suggest that I do on the other a tree of life on the other side. Oh, they did, did they? No. So I said, sure, we'll see. In a in Louise Hay, not Louise Hay, Eloise Page, right? Eloise Page, yes. Eloise Page on her meditation area. They were suggesting me to do a tree of life over there. We shall see.
SPEAKER_03Yes, I just love how it all unfolded.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Really beautiful.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I think I'm gonna say it out loud tomorrow. Oh, it's Saturday, I mean. I'd share. I haven't shared it yet with Mickey. Stop it. Really? I haven't. Only you and Yoli know. And Emmy. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, now everybody else is gonna know because we're recording this, unless you want me to keep, I can take it out. No, no, no. I'm so excited. I can't wait till I visit next. And when that's gonna be, I don't know. It might be next week, it might be in a month, it might be, I don't know yet. But of course, you'll be one of the first people to know. Yeah. Yeah. But I'd love for you to share exactly what is it that sunshine does when she's not blocking out her calendar to do a meal in Casadega because you have so many beautiful abilities. Like, I mean, you do hypnotherapy, like deep shadow work, mediumship, spiritual coaching. You are a facilitator of retreats that go from like Thailand to England, Costa Rica, to Sedona. And it's like you're just like ping, ping, ping, like from this end of the world to the next. And yeah. So what does what does that look like if someone reaches out to Sunshine and says, I think I've hit rock bottom. I feel like crap. My life is gonna end. I need help. What does it look like? Because you do Reiki as well. You do Reiki, inner child work.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01So I would thank them first for being brave enough to reach out and say it out loud. And then I would have an amazing conversation with them. And then I would suggest, intuitively suggest what the next step would be, what I believe that I the universe wants me to offer. And it's not even me, you know, it's really it's all channeled through you. You know, you are your own healer. So I don't even like to call myself a healer because we're all healers, and we are the only one who can heal ourselves. And, you know, there's I have a modality that some people call it a soul massage, you know, where it's just I'm gliding my hands on you, but you could feel all your feelings. I had a woman yesterday, the minute my hands touched her, she burst out into tears. And it's such a beautiful, beautiful experience. And she said, All I felt was love. That's all I felt. The minute you touched me, all I felt was the immense feeling of unconditional love, you know, and I've helped people in all different, you know, vibrational. There's been people that are in their lows and their real lows, and I've helped people in their highs, you know, and it's again, I'm just the guide. And I I don't like to put labels on it. I don't like to put it in a box because every single person is different and they're gonna experience it differently. You know, her husband got on the table and he fell asleep, you know. So it's it's different every single time, you know. I've had people who had out of out-of-body experiences. I've had people had ayahuasca experiences where they actually purged, you know, so it's it's different for every single person. And I believe, you know, I like I said in the beginning, I experienced so much trauma in my life because it was my school of helping other people in this world, you know, and I'm grateful for it. I'm grateful for it. Did I answer the question? I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_03Yes, absolutely. And it just kind of it kind of brought in another question where you mentioned coding. Because body, our body is so intelligent. And I did this breath work last weekend, and it was something that my mentor had suggested I do this type of box breathing, but then I just kind of put my own spin on it.
SPEAKER_02Beautiful.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it was profound. And at one point, when I was in a certain part of my body and I was doing the, I sneezed. Another time I yawned, and then another time I yawned again. And it's like our body that's the way for us to release stress. And it just shows that wow, that was really something there where it had to be like an audible noise. And even if it's not a deep sigh and it's an actual sneeze, it was actually kind of funny because I'm like, oh, that was kind of cute, little sneeze. Yeah, yeah, yeah. While I'm feeling all the feelings, you know. And yeah, what are some other ways that our body can express the release? Because it's different for all of us. It's like I know someone they might they burp, you know. For others, they may feel like they need to urinate and they may suppress that, but it's really important if we can maybe touch on that, the importance of really listening to your body and letting your body guide you through some through breath work experiences. Cause I've I've never come to any of your breathwork experiences yet, right? Because it's always before I come or right after I leave, you know, but we'll have to connect before I come. Yeah, yeah. We'll schedule one in there. And it's not really spoken about that this is what you may experience while we're doing this breath work. Yeah. Because it's so easy to to think, you know, years ago I would have been, oh, I got a pee. Okay, well, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna get up and leave because we're in the middle of doing breath work, but it's so important to release that. That's right. Because then it's being stored right in our body. So why don't we touch on that?
SPEAKER_01So there's 8 83% of your toxins come out of your body through your breath. So I had People here this Sunday doing breath work and some people were screaming, some people were crying, some people were, you know, moving their hands, some people were moving their legs, you know, and some people were just laying there, you know, breathing. But it's it's it's so important, it's so important to I my famous words are get it out of your body. All noises are welcome here. If you need to cough, your throat chakras opening up, cough it out, if you need to scream, scream it out, if you need to cry, cry. You know, it's just and again, you are your own healer. So if you feel you need to start tapping your body, tap your body. If you feel if I'm guiding you and saying you're in the beach, but you're seeing a mountain, stay in the mountain, you know. It's so important to trust yourself. And because everything that you are guided to in that moment is through you, it's through your soul, your god, your being. Everything is within you, and you are the only one who is experiencing it in this moment. So you are the one to heal yourself in this moment and feel all those feelings. I had my friend Rosie, I think you met her. She no, she showed up just when I left. Oh, okay. So she's yeah, she stayed with me for three weeks. She came from Long Island to have a beautiful healing here in Alatua, you know, and submerse herself into this beautiful high vibrational uh section of the woods over here. And she is a beautiful soul that I got to experience for three weeks too. And I host fires every Friday night, and we were gathered at the fire. She just left that day, and some we were going around the fire, you know, sharing our feelings, and it came to me, and I said, actually, I paused for a minute and I said, I actually feel a little sad right now. And a tear came rolling down my eye, my face, and I said, My Rosie left me this this morning. She left to go step into her power, you know, and I said, But I do feel a little sadness. I said, and then I paused again, and then I said, I went to the springs today with so-and-so and so and so, and I saw turtles and birds and butterflies and dragonflies. So, like I had that moment of sadness. I felt it, I released it, I healed it, and then the next moment I went on to the happiness, you know. So we don't have to sit in our sadness, we don't have to sit in our anger, we can feel it, release it in any shape, form that you want to, and and then let it go, you know. I like to say feel it to heal it and then let it go. Yeah, and it could be all different forms, all different forms. My favorite form of releasing feelings is painting and crocheting. You know, it's doing something that brings me joy, and that's actually my meditation. I don't sit on a pillow for four hours and be quiet because I can't. No, I can't say I'll never say I can't because I can do anything my heart desires, but it doesn't bring me joy. So by me creating and painting and being in that now moment is my meditation, and in being in that now moment is it opens me to feel whatever I need to feel. I do it, I feel it anytime I do I need to. I had a beautiful healing the other day, it's probably a month ago, but you know, day and time don't matter in my world at this moment, and somebody sent me a funny video, and I literally only watched 10 seconds of this video, and it triggered joy, it triggered joy in me, and I threw the phone down and I laughed like I have not laughed before. And you know I laugh at everything, but it was a laugh where I could not control. It was a laugh where I was literally tears were pouring out of my eyes, snot was coming out of my nose because I was laughing so uncontrollably, and I was loving every minute of this laughter. But that was that was healing for me. Whatever it was, I don't have to dissect it, but that was a beautiful healing moment by laughing, laughing, and it whatever it was was coming out of my body through laughter, through laughter.
SPEAKER_03I love those laughs. You laugh and cry at the same time, yeah. And sometimes you're in your own moment, and someone walks in the room and they're like, oftentimes it's my daughter, and she's like, You're crying again, and it's like I'm crying and I'm laughing. And it was just, yeah. I love those. And it's and it's that much more magical when you share that with someone else. And I've like a good friend of mine, Joanne. We send each other pictures back and forth, and like we'll piss ourselves laughing, and we'll send each other voice texts, and we're both like laughing, and it's like, I don't know. And it's it's it's more often than none, and it's like one of us will say back, you know, I think I just wet myself.
SPEAKER_02Like so beautiful.
SPEAKER_03I love it. I love it. I love it sometimes. And I love you. I love you. So thank you so much for sharing your time with us. And we're gonna get back to some more eye gazing when we wrap this up. I would just ask for you to share where people can reach out to you. What's your email address, what's your website, and I'll also include that in the show notes as well. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Well, first I want to say thank you for sharing your love and your energy and spreading your own sunshine into this world by featuring beautiful souls, including yourself. So thank you, thank you, thank you. I see you, I honor you, I love you. And for me, you could probably just Google Sunshine Warrior L L C that's all my platform names except for Facebook. I am Sunshine Okubo O-K-U-B-O. My website is Sunshinesoulhealingarts.com. And yeah. And or you can text me, 631-355-0583. I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid of weirdos because I am one. Were you in the van when we got the soliciting call? And I answered, no, you weren't? I don't think so. Yeah, I think Yoli was on it. Was maybe it was Yoli and Emmy, and I said, Watch, I'll answer the spam phone call. And I answered, I'm like, hi, hello, hello. And you know, I'm singing to them in the ear click. I was like, let's just switch it, switch it on them, you know. So funny, but yeah, that's where you can find me. Awesome. Yeah. I do have a retreat coming up here on April 2nd. I have a couple of spots left if anybody's interested. And and Costa Rica in July. I have a couple of spots left there too. And when's the one in in England? That one is in August. That one's all filled up. Yeah. Exciting.
SPEAKER_03Yay. Exciting. I can't wait to see you and spend time with you during my next visit.
SPEAKER_01Yay. I'm excited too. And you're gonna offer to me.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna offer to you. Oh yes.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, some energy here. I'm gonna get on the I'm gonna get on the magic table. I can't wait.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I can even guide you through that breath work that I did last Sunday. It was quite profound.
SPEAKER_01We are here to nourish and inspire each other. Yes. So thank you for nourishing and inspiring me.
SPEAKER_03Well, there we have it. A conversation with Sunshine Akubo. There's one thing we didn't touch on, and that was that she's also the author of a children's book. So I've included the link for her book in the show notes as as well as the links to her socials. So I invite you the next time you're in Florida to take the drive to Casadega to check out her mural. I can't wait to see it in person. As promised, here we have it Insignificant Somethings by Bob Saima. Thank you for being here.
SPEAKER_00I won't lie, I love the cry. I got a raging river inside. But my mind doesn't know when I let my heart go and my stone won't let me hide. I'm a dreamer, I'm kinda lazy. But I call my crazy crazy. I'ma wreck, I'm a wreck, I'm a holy hold of map, but I'm staying with leading away. And I'm not here. I'm not alone, I'm not alone. Oh, everybody, we'll get back, it went. We will make that all the yellow, the yellow we had it all. I'm a little bit of a hood. I'm a little bit of a big foil eyes. We are right, we fall, and we run, and we won't, we all we got the gun, the gun, we go, we don't get it. And we race, and we fall, and we run, then we walk, then we crawl. Well, we might not have it all together, but together we have it all.