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Sunshine - Part TWO! Food for Medicine, Seeing Spirit, and Mental Health
Join us on this riveting journey into the realm of natural healing, spiritual encounters, and mental health awareness. Sunshine Farris, a dedicated mother, and an ardent believer in the power of food as medicine, shares her enlightening experiences. Discover how she creatively uses natural remedies like bone broth and fire cider, fondly named Dragon's Breath, to boost her family's immunity. Hear first-hand accounts of how these healing foods and remedies have significantly improved her family's health and wellbeing.
Sit tight as the narrative takes an intriguing twist into the world of spiritual activity. Living in a governor's mansion in Mexico, Sunshine's family confronted a myriad of spiritual encounters, both benevolent and malevolent. She poignantly narrates her experiences, the miracles witnessed, and the challenges faced. The story doesn't end there, as she uncovers her ongoing encounters with spiritual activity in her home in Missouri. The power of prayer, she says, played a crucial role in dealing with these experiences.
In our final segment, we navigate through the sensitive topic of mental illness, reflecting on the compelling story of Miles. Carrie underscores the importance of recognizing mental illnesses and the devastating consequences if left untreated. She passionately advocates for parents not to blame themselves if their children succumb to mental illness. This episode is a testament to the fact that mental health matters, and it's something that needs to be discussed and understood more openly in our society.
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Okay. so, besides, one of the things I wanted to ask you is you're a healer. I mean, besides, spiritual healings that you do and your tinctures and your food as your medicine and all that. I know the things that you do, but I want you to say what some of the things that you've done and seen?
Speaker 2:I was actually just going through a memory the other day and my mom used to always call me the little nurse because when we were at the orphanage people, you know someone would be sick or something and go over. You know, as a child you were like, oh, let me take care of you.
Speaker 2:You know and you know like pat your head and I'm gonna check your heart and like the whole thing because you just so and then.
Speaker 2:But like it continued like this whole like obsession with wanting to make you better and like food is your medicine 100% And I always had like this love for the kitchen and making sure that what you're putting in your body is going to make you better. So like when people are sick, like I make a bone broth in the house and during the time of year when the flu is really bad, like we do that and I make fire cider on a regular basis. So you know, and the little boys know from a young age we do like the shot game. So I turn, like turn them into little baby frat boys because they, i like I make the fire cider which is like really potent. It's apple cider, vinegar and onions and garlic and jalapenos and horseradish and ginger and turmeric and more hot things, like if you can find more you know types of peppers and it just sits and sits and sits and cooks for like six weeks.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, In the dark, then you strain it and that should have last forever, but you want to use it as much as possible because it is You don't want to kiss anybody after you drink that.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, now like you, just go brush your teeth after that.
Speaker 2:It's bad And I call it dragon's breath, like that's the name of it because they were little, you know, and I'm trying to make it fun for them. So we would line up little shot glasses of you know our fire cider or dragon's breath And I'd be like, all right, guys, let's do this. And they're like oh no. And I'm like I bet you can't do it the fastest You know, like trying to get them to do it.
Speaker 2:It's like shot shot, shot, shot. So they'd say to her like ready, you go, you go, you go, go go, and they'd like chug it as fast as they could.
Speaker 1:And I don't sip on it.
Speaker 2:It'll take you all day. I'm like, just get it done. And they're like, ah, like it smells awful. And then they never got the flu. It's just ever Ever. Like my people never get the flu.
Speaker 1:That's amazing Ever.
Speaker 2:So that's just like one of the things that we love Include in your life, yeah. So they know they know like mom, stuff might be really bad tasting but it's going to be amazing, yeah. And then it was as far as like kitchen food and thing like that. You know, obviously it's going to taste way better and a lot of blood and stuff, but yeah, so it's just always been like this thing of wanting to, you know, make life better and healthier in that way.
Speaker 1:So even when you were a young age and you were at the orphanage or wherever you were traveling around in Mexico, where else did you guys go?
Speaker 2:So we were, yeah we were just in Mexico Two different times or three because we were in the mountains, And then eventually we went back home to San Antonio and then we stayed stateside for a couple of times and then we went back to do a church plant.
Speaker 1:I say we I was like four Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was, but crazy stuff that happened, and we can definitely talk about this some other time if you want to too. I love it. I can come back and talk about all the crazy stuff.
Speaker 1:Bring it on, man, i want it That we saw. That's what I want. Yeah, bring it That we saw. Give me one In that Right now.
Speaker 2:So there it was like. so we were living in a governor's mansion in the. this is what the orphanage was, So the government had given this over to the state so that it could be an orphan house, right? So it was an old governor's mansion which is like and then a lot of the houses in Mexico are like the Hacienda style, so like it wrapped around the courtyard and the pool in the middle.
Speaker 2:So it was just really, you know, large corridors and long hallways, right, and then we had this beautiful dining room that we would eat in, like in the floors, of course, were probably like Saltillo tile. I just they're definitely tile. I'm just assuming they're Saltillo tile because that's what.
Speaker 1:that's what we did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's normally what we built, They built things in. So we have these big tables and chairs and everything And this was it had it had to have been like some portal. that and I talk about all the time because there was so much spiritual activity in this place, Both good and bad It was ridiculous, like evil and good right It's. it wasn't just like a ton of demonic activity. There was tons of angels like we'd see them all the time just moving through and like the miracles that would happen in things. So it's just like you got to just take the good with the bad.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. I'm, it's one of those, it's a spiritual you better all the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we're asleep one night and Hear all this banging, like chairs being thrown and moved and banging, and just all this shit happening. It's crazy loud, loud, loud because it's it's like there wasn't a lot of things to like soundproof. You know, a dining hall, it's just fucking table with a bunch of chairs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, on that tile, yeah, on the tile and so it's very the acoustics are really like great in there. So you hear all this noise and it just it startles us right. So I stay and dad goes into the kitchen and what he sees is the chairs are everywhere, the tables turned, and Everything's open and toss up it. So it's totally like a horror movie. You know like you're like, you walk into the room and you're like, and everything's tossed right and He just kind of starts praying. He's just praying like okay, father, like you have us here, you want us here for a reason just keep us all safe, keep our family safe, and Whatever isn't of you like it needs to go. So like simple prayers like that, right where That's just and that's like the normal prayer is father, i am where I'm supposed to be. So you're here, holy Spirit, you're here, and whatever is in of you doesn't belong.
Speaker 1:That's right Like let it go right now Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't want it here. clear it, yeah, clear it out. So He, like he puts it all back together and then go back to sleep and then it does it again, whatever it was, and it's just one of those disruptive things like they just want you to engage, they want your attention, and it's so.
Speaker 2:He like he didn't play the game. You know he's like to make the mess. We're just gonna go to sleep, right. Well, there were more men leveled at, ones that wanted other things, and so It got to be kind of scary sometimes. And I remember running down the hall, like I was running on the hallway to my mom on the other side, and I saw something like in front of me and like kind of like startled me, i stopped.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was something and my mom's like come on, come on, come on, you know we gotta go. So I like keep running and as I'm walking, like my body goes flying, like I literally like trip over this huge something, nothing, and my body goes flying across and My mom was like she saw it and then she was like come on, like let's go, and she's like running to me. I'm running to her, and did she see it? Yeah, okay, so you both saw, yeah, yeah, and I didn't know what it was. You know, i was just like I don't know. Like as a child, i feel like you see all the things and you don't know you know, until it does something.
Speaker 2:So it was, and then at that point, like ever since that point I had there's like I'll have, like the one that stands by my bed scares the shit out of me and I wake up or it's literally like on top of me and I can't move and I can't breathe, and so there's those that come back a lot, you know. And since we've been in this house, now that we're at Missouri, i told her I was like I feel like this is a portal because we're seeing both in our house, we're seeing. I can see angels and Jariah's talking to him and hanging out with him in his room and with his whole being on the spectrum. He's like hyper sensitive to spiritual activity. So you like, i love watching him watch everything around us, because that's the most beautiful thing is just to know that this little magical baby is like extra spiritual and he's beyond like this little body you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like, and it's okay if he's non verbal, you know, it's okay because he has a completely different language. She is made perfect in this spiritual world. That's just he's so brilliant. So, yeah, so we're seeing a lot of both. And I feel like I was telling Josh the previous owner, she was on her deathbed, also in our room No, really, yeah, did she live? She lived, and it was a hard recovery for her too. Oh my gosh. And I, yeah, and I told Josh I was like I really feel like there is something here. It's not the only thing that's here. I feel like there's something here that doesn't like women, like it has like a vendetta against women, and so it's like it's literally trying to kill us because we're the only two women and everybody else is 100% healthy. Nobody else in my family got sick. Nobody got anything. Nobody got COVID, nobody got pneumonia, nobody got. None of them have had any of those things.
Speaker 2:Wow, and I'm the only one that's like literally dying on the bed, like it was crazy. And people will come over Like have people visit and stuff. And of course you know we attract amazing people. So like all my people are very spiritual people and they see things right. So one of them she was staying in Dasha's room. It's downstairs And Dasha was like Dasha's room is bigger than mine, it's this adorable suite.
Speaker 2:Like he can fit a huge couch in there and his bed and his bathroom by himself, like he never has to leave. It's crazy cozy, it's so cool. So she's staying in his room and I guess he was out of town or something So she can lay in the. she was laying in the bed and the stairs are here. So you walk down the stairs and then there's a huge living room dead down here And then Dasha's room is way over here on that side.
Speaker 2:So right here And this is where a lot of the activities happening is right at the base of the stairs, like if we're talking spiritual stuff, when I went down to the stairs and it hit me and I'm like I can't go back up the stairs, like that's where all that happens, right, so it very well could have been way more spiritual than I ever give it credit for. You know what I mean? The whole me thing. So she's laying in the bed and her head is turned sideways looking, and she sees an entity and it's not a good one, because she's like it tells you what it is.
Speaker 1:Well, i think you feel it. Yeah, it's a knowing, it's a clear cognizance, it's a knowing. So she was like fuck this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she closes the door, locks it and then she like sages the shit out of that room And that room. I've been cleansing that room over and over and over again because the previous owner's father died in that room. Okay So, and she was very open about it, like we talked to some of she's like yeah, i blessed it, it's fine, i opened the window like the whole, like superstition of, like letting the spirit go, like the whole thing Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:She's like so it's been cleansed and blessed, and I go, okay, yeah, i appreciate that. And then I go back and I'm doing it all the time anyways, because, regardless of him passing, there's a ton of activity that happens. So she's, she's saged, she's like I'm saging, saging, and then she like goes to sleep facing the door and you know, and she didn't see it again Before that, after I was sick, leslie and Mary came to see me and Mary is a Reiki master and the aligning of the chakra, but it's something similar like seeing things too, right, so she sees a lot of stuff too. So she was over at the house and she was like, huh, she goes. So I just saw somebody downstairs And I was like different person, different person completely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and she says they don't know each other. Yeah, these two people, because the other person that's had saw it Vanessa. Yeah, she they don't know.
Speaker 2:They've never met before. They've never met before.
Speaker 1:No, no, and this is your Texas friends that came up to visit you.
Speaker 2:Well, vanessa's in Washington now. So, like they're, they've never crossed paths And Vanessa wasn't really at one point. Yeah, and this is after I got back from the hospital. So this is before Vanessa Mary saw this person, okay, and she says she's like this is more protective, though what I saw, like I didn't feel any fear. I felt like this we'll call it a being was there on a protective mission, like kind of just overseeing everything to make sure everything's okay, like there was like a calming sense that she got from that, because there's another story I need to tell you about.
Speaker 2:Bring it That too. But anyways, really quick, just to wrap up the whole cleansing thing. Yeah, that That's something we do regularly, like I because of my herbalism and stuff. like I love to infuse oil, so I infuse my own frankincense oil and I anoint it, so I like, literally, i have some in the car for you.
Speaker 2:I literally like walk around with my own anointing oil, you know and it's so cool because, out of the blue, i'll run into a situation where I'm like and I need to go bless that place with my anointing oil. Like you know, it's just it's it's really cool. So I regularly like pray over all my doorways, pray over all my windows and Sage everything. Well, i'm sorry, i say sage, i use Palo Santo.
Speaker 2:I love policy and they're both very similar to each other in what they're in their properties because, like your actual, like herbal Properties, that they medicinal properties. That they do is, when you burn the Palo Santo or the sage, it Literally cleanses the air. Cleanses the air, so it's eating up anything that you know little micro Organisms that are there that are bad for the air, and it purifies the air So it's so it's meant to do that. It is it's so?
Speaker 1:beautiful And there's. I know there was like a Palo Santo is also used in for blessing as well.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, yeah, absolutely and it, yeah, so like it's spiritual benefit would be, or metaphysical, like have whatever word you want to use It's very, it's a blessing, it's this you know, opens up to like beautiful things to happen around you it's just really pretty, and This, like a side note on it, is that they were endangered for a while in Ecuador, the Palo Santo trees, because everybody was using them. Oh, my god resource. So just you know, now everything's back to. It's okay now. They've known how to like ethically.
Speaker 2:Yeah resource it and Whatever. So just make sure you like, when you're getting it, that you're getting it from like a sound place, you know, yeah, to be safe and keep the trees going. You know, like, keep the trees alive, we need them. As I'm kind of like walking Through this week to get to you, right, i have, like you know, i'm getting ready for the day and I'm kind of like buzzing around Wimberley, you know, like my old stomping ground, and go and like I feel I felt like wherever I was, that's where I was supposed to be like, and just magical, beautiful people keep just kept falling in front of me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was the coolest day. So I'm sitting down at community pizza and I ran into one of my old girlfriend's daughters I've like got to engage and she saw me and she ran around the corner and hugged me and just just this beautiful person like inside out, and I wasn't feeling so hot that weren't either. It just kind of icky with all my detoxing going on and just so. Yes, i'm like sitting there and just not feeling 100% and my hair is not messy because it's Texas and and she's just. She looks to me, she says you are, your soul is so beautiful and bright today, like thank you for coming to see me today. I'm like looking around, like me, like the same thing.
Speaker 1:I did earlier. Am I really Yeah, and she?
Speaker 2:says you're a phoenix on fire. She goes like phoenixes are cool and they're like on fire. She's like, but no, like you're on fire. She says I can see that you're on fire and I was like, okay, and I'm like it's one of those days, right, we just are just talking and she says did you have a near-death experience? And I was like, yeah, pretty much like I was pretty much almost dead. I didn't like she goes you were.
Speaker 1:Didn't call sober, But yeah yeah, yeah, and she goes.
Speaker 2:No, she goes. But you were there and it changed you.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:She's like and you're, you're different now, you're totally different now. And she said So yeah, it was like you know how I talk, i'm just like all over the place are extra back and forth, back and forth. And so at some point mentioned mommy dying in November, and and then we like come back around to the other conversation and She says your mom was there. She goes did you have like an experience Like coming back? I was like, yes, i did. I was like it was amazing, like and I'm like, i'm like telling her bits and pieces of it. And she goes your mom was there the whole time and like her hands were there.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm on you, mm-hmm, and she wants me to tell you that and she's like you, you're, you're doing it. You're doing exactly what you need to be doing, really. And I told her that because It's dark around me, but not like in a dark place. I'm not in like a dark place, i'm just a little like I feel lost, mm-hmm, because they don't know which direction I'm supposed to be going. Yeah, so I feel like I'm stuck.
Speaker 1:I think you made it your head up to the water and now you're just trying to figure out what shortest one to Yeah, yeah, and that you're in the right spot and he's got you right there. And I feel like it's just keep listening, just keep taking the steps, because sometimes he will only give you a step for right now, but you want to see the 10 steps in front of you and you want to see the end.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because that's what my life has been as well, and Adam and whatever we're dealing with, yeah, You know, And Adam and I have laughed about it. It's like can you just give me like we look at him as stones What's the first stone? Can you give me two stones, two steps ahead, not just one? But when you do, he's there And then it just starts to flow And I think that's what's happening. And then there's also a spiritual battle.
Speaker 2:That's also going on All the time that are trying to stop us.
Speaker 1:I felt like last night I was attacked, which I hadn't told any, obviously anybody. This The only one that really knows is Isabelle, because she was there. But I've had experiences before, like when I was interviewing Rich the night before his interview, i was in the kitchen And the lights on our vent for the oven just start going off and on it starts turning on and the lights start turning. I mean it's chaos, yeah, and it never happens, but it's happened one other time And I felt like it was spiritual because there's nothing wrong with it. We've had it looked at and it works.
Speaker 1:And then when I interview Rich, he tells me pretty much almost the exact same story that his brother who had passed Terry, was always messing with him And he would mess with them at their house after he passed, which was awesome, because he's telling me this And I'm like this just happened to me last night. My two daughters were in there And it kept happening And we were trying to turn it off And finally I stood up and I looked at it And I said watch this, sophia. I said, in the name of Jesus, stop. It turned off.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:All of it. Yeah, i mean, it was so loud The vent, the lights we kept pushing the buttons, we're trying to turn it off. It wouldn't turn off And I said that and it stopped. And the next day I'm interviewing Rich And he's telling me all these things And I'm like, well, i can tell you he's here, because last night this is what happened to me And he was just like no way, and it was such a great story, yeah. And then last night I was sitting there cooking, making the sauce. I eat honey all the time, i don't have allergies like that, whatever And I took a sip And my throat closed up in anaphylactic shock.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh And I thought I was going to die. And I grabbed Isabelle And I squeezed her And I looked at her And I heard calm down and take your breath. And right, when I heard the words and I went and relax, i started to breathe. It was the craziest thing, right, things like this happen to us all the time And some things can be scary And I could take it in a fear way, but I know that I'm protected. Greater is he that is in me, that he is in the world. I mean, i just know that. And so this morning I was like All morning my whole body is just like this, with energy and goodness, but before, when I would feel that I didn't know what that was. Now I know the difference between anxiety and when the Holy Spirit's about to do something really powerful, and so I felt like that was just something you know right before we do something spiritual or an event or a study or anything Chaos.
Speaker 1:It stirs up chaos because it's a spiritual warfare, and are you strong enough to recognize it? Are you stupid enough to ignore it and think that or be afraid of it? Because I was. I don't want any part of that. You're going to stir up a whole bunch of stuff And when you do, you don't know what's going to happen to you. Well, i know what's going to happen, because this is life. Things happen.
Speaker 1:But I know that God saved my son from being killed by getting hit by a car. Yeah, and he wasn't in a car. He ran towards the car and did thirty five hundred dollars worth of damage. He should have been dead. There was a boy that did it the night before, and a boy that did it the night before because because the detective told us And he said I just want you to know, this is my third night, same situation, same highway, same scenario, and your son lived. So nobody, nobody was there that I can explain the story to, because they don't know the magnitude of it. Yeah, yeah, he shouldn't have lived, but I know that my God is greater and I don't want to come across and say because he could have died and that could have been his time and there was a reason and a purpose for it. Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow Oh wow, that's so crazy. It's hard And what? and sometimes I feel like he had to have known. You know, the detective had to have known that something more, oh, he did.
Speaker 1:He told us Yeah, yeah, like there's on the phone with me for two hours And he's from when I I mean we were on the phone for days because it was very complicated. Miles has schizophrenia and he thought that he was being chased by 30 cars that were trying to kill us and then was trying to kill him And so he thought he was saving our lives, and how many. And here's the other thing that I feel like. One of the reasons why I feel it's so important to tell this story is because there's a lot of parents out there that did lose their son to the same exact thing Yeah, mental illness Doing. I know someone that their son just ran out. He snapped at a party, 18 years old, and he just started running. Well, he didn't know where he was running. Well, he ran out in the middle of the highway and got hit by 18 wheeler.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God.
Speaker 1:He didn't know. Yeah, and those stories I find are more common than the ones that are. I just didn't want to live anymore. You bet There are those, yeah, but for you to want to kill yourself, there's something wrong mentally, whether they're seeing things or hearing things, or depression is a mental illness. It really is. So that's why I feel like I got to tell that story. There's a mom out there that is thinking that she did a bad job. She didn't do enough. You know, if she would have done this, if she would have done that, he'd still be here. And she didn't know that he had a mental illness, right? Yeah, and I don't want that person to live the rest of their life believing that lie.
Speaker 2:Amen, yeah, 100% Wow.
