Betting On Love!’s founder, Sunshine Grace, founded the organization after her own struggles with mental health. Having been homeless herself, she is passionate about the chronically homeless and neglected and abused children.
Cabe Lindsay is the passionate artist and media maker behind the Betting On Love! website and also filmed the Conscious Awakening Conference held in Austin, TX in February of 2023.
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Sunshine Grace
Betting On Love! Founder
Sunshine Grace was born in the ’70s in Sheridan, MT and comes from Russian, German, and Scottish lineages. Her early years in Portland, OR were shaped by the Pacific Northwest’s trees and mist, fostering her deep connection to nature. Her grandfather was a storyteller; this is who gave her an appreciation for good stories. She attended school in Mesa, AZ, where she was exposed to community initiatives on universal love and compassion. She joined the military at age 22 for housing and educational opportunities, where her mentors demonstrated how to follow, and the true meaning of “first in, last out” leadership. She helped raise her step-daughter in Jacksonville, FL, where she earned her master’s degree in psychology and worked in project management for large corporations for ten years, before retiring in 2019. Jacksonville became her first haven for a sense of safety and belongingness. It was here where she began to connect with her passion of building community and bringing people together.
After an ineffable spiritual experience in Kenya under the stars of the Serengeti, Sunshine moved to Austin in 2018. Then, in 2019, she entered a period of severe mental health breakdowns that lasted five years. It was at the beginning of this long phase of deep suffering that she began to connect the dots between a lifetime of anxiety, depression, and autoimmune diseases — and a lifetime of trauma. Realizing that she needed to feel safe to begin to heal, she began simplifying her life and creating a calm, stress-free home environment. It also became apparent that she couldn’t do this alone…so she began having the courage to ask those closest to her for help, cultivating community, and seeking out loving, honest, and supportive relationships.
In the middle of this healing journey, she felt drawn to sit with ayahuasca in 2022, which became a catalyst for another mental health breakdown unlike any she’d ever experienced — because this breakdown included mystical experiences like hearing a voice. By January, 2023, she began having terrifying nightmares that led to paranoia and dissociation. During this “bottoming out” period, she started living out of her car, and became very physically ill, overwhelmed, and unreachable to family and friends. As she hit a state of crisis, she lost trust in her mind and faith in goodness. After 1 year and 9 months of disorientation, with the support from others, she began to slowly identify the cause of her breakdown, which she now views as “shamanic illness” (even though she isn’t a shaman). This terrifying and destabilizing period has left Sunshine with much wisdom about the preciousness of life, and the importance of having a good self-care routine and a committed mindfulness practice.
Out of her struggle with mental illness came many beautiful gifts: the gift of mediumship (i.e. connection to a voice that she now calls “Spirit”), weekly “teaching dreams”, telepathy, insight on the nature of reality, and how to orientate to life through the heart. Feeling more grounded than ever, Sunshine has a burning desire to use her biggest gift of all — her voice — to talk candidly about her experiences with “schizophrenia”, as well as share the wisdom she’s gained on the importance of self-love and acceptance. Her clairaudience, telepathy, and teaching dreams continue today, and Sunshine loves sharing the simple yet powerful and poetic insights from Spirit with others!
Today, Sunshine is more peaceful than ever. She continues to “do the heart work” to heal her own trauma, as well as support friends on their journeys. Sunshine has become a strong advocate for prioritizing physical health, trusting one’s intuition, giving and receiving love, being compassionate towards others while also maintaining healthy boundaries, advocating for one’s needs, and seeing the beauty in life’s perfect design! She is devoted to helping others and a heartfelt practitioner of meditation, contemplation, and the Texas two-step!
Thích Nhất Hạnh, Terence McKenna, Adyashanti, Sandra Ingerman, Oprah Winfrey, Albert Einstein, Willie Nelson, and her closest friends are just a few of a long list of people who inspire her!
Cabe Lindsay
Media Manager
Cabe Lindsay, M.A., is a versatile artist with a prolific output in books, films, and music. By profession, he is the owner and production manager of Arise Video Studio, specializing in documentary promo videos, overseeing ~500 videos per year. By passion, he is the band leader of Cosmic Butterflies and the co-facilitator of Feather Lightwork. By divine orchestration, he is a family man with three incredible kids.
He grew up in the charming town of Lander, WY, where his dad was an elementary art teacher and his mom was a pianist. Blessed with two encouraging parents who believed in his creative abilities, Cabe defied the dreaded “starving artist” stereotype. He never went hungry, but he did have his fair share of humility.
Like a tumbleweed, half asleep, he followed someone else’s American Dream. He breezed through a formal education, earning a master’s degree in advertising from The University of Texas at Austin. He gathered vast experience as an advertising art director, and he had the battle scars to prove it. But he never reached the pinnacle of a white picket fence. He preferred a world without fences.
One day, gazing at wildflowers waving in the wind, inspiration struck. He wondered if he had to work so hard, to survive and thrive and flourish in this world. He saw Truth in the words of Thich Nhat Hanh. “You don’t have to die to get to heaven. You only have to truly live.” Cabe decided to follow the flowers’ example, and go where the winds of destiny carried him: Home. He knew he held a vital role in bringing heaven down to earth.
Following a higher calling, he started making meaningful media, beginning with the feature-length films, Wild Family and Voices of the Grandmothers. His publications included children’s books: Be Well Bee, Brave Spirit, Wild Wyoming… along with the youth fiction novel series: Wyld. Meanwhile, he continued to send stories soaring for clients too, locally and globally. This is his Work, and it is an honor.
He began like a sun, radiating light in all directions. He learned to be a focused beam, channeling energy into a single potent ray. “Global Harmony” is his mission, for example, as the host of the Hive Open Mic event, approaching 200 consecutive weeks. World peace is his vision. In a spiritual sense, he studies divine virtues, e.g. Creative Fire, Warrior of the Light, Sacred Medicine Cultivator… He is a rad daddy, an artist, and a brother to all.