There are two lies I’ve watched people get trapped in as they followed my story this last year.
If you are wondering how you could walk in freedom and victory when faced with the worst nightmare you could imagine, I am going to let you in on one of my secrets. ? **To know My second best secret, you will have to message me.
The first lie is they compare and minimize their own grief and tragedy if they feel it doesn’t come close to the level of pain I’ve experienced.
My grief counselor taught me each of us has experienced our life, our tragedies, our grief at 100% and we should honor those emotions, not minimize them, because that won’t bring healing.
I’d like to give you permission to feel all of that emotion, and then invite you to release it all because only when we hold onto that emotion or ignore it can it harm us.
Emotions are simply signals that some thing in the body needs attention.
In our society, we don’t honor our emotions, we are taught to numb them with things that make it worse not better or we fall deep into denial and depression and walk around like a zombie because we’re so focused on the negative emotion and we get stuck.
We don’t know how to get out of the horrible loop of being the victim, and not forgiving those who have wronged us.
If this rings a bell with you and you feel stuck, please reach out to my grief counselor.
I paid $950 for a seven week one on one course with her (via zoom most of the time) and it was the best investment probably of my life.
(I tagged her so you can friend her and schedule a complementary discovery call with her)
I’ll share the second lie I’ve identified in people who followed my story later this week that will set some of you free.
**For my second best kept secret, you’ll have to message me.
Today was the first time I attended a seminar that inspired me all the way to my core that I couldn’t process it all at the end of the day with my beloved.
we loved sharing our growth journey. When they say two heads are better than one, the meeting of the minds that can happen inside of marriage amplifies everything. ? Did you get left behind?
I invited you all to the same event and one of you came.
If I happen to invite you again, may I strongly suggest you ?not get left behind?
It’s my opinion that America is counting on us to find a way out of this mess. If we unite, we can solve incredibly big problems and become incredibly wealthy along the way. The problem is, critical information has been with held and purposely taught the opposite of what would make us successful.
Josh Tolley taught me a lot of things that helped fill in the gap of my understanding how economics finances and entrepreneurism work. I am a forever student and take that role very seriously. Todd and I were always investing in our personal growth and skill level.
Michael “Mike” Anthony Granata February 21, 1965 – November 1, 2021
Michael, a longtime resident of Gilroy, passed away on November 1, 2021. Never a kinder more gentle man did I know than my husband, Michael.
For those who knew Mike, you know that he was a good and honest man. He was kind, considerate, and always polite.
Mike was adamant that people know what happened to him that caused his early and unexpected death. Message from Mike: “Many nurses and non-nursing staff begged me and my wife to get the truth out to the public about the Covid-19 vaccines because the truth of deaths from the vaccine was being hidden within the medical profession. I promised I would get the message out. So, here is my message: I was afraid of getting the vaccine for fear that I might die. At the insistence of my doctor, I gave in to pressure to get vaccinated. On August 17th I received the Moderna vaccine and starting feeling ill three days later. I never recovered but continued to get worse. I developed multisystem inflammation and multisystem failure that medical professionals could not stop. My muscles disappeared as if to disintegrate. I was in ICU for several weeks and stabbed with needles up to 24 times a day for those several weeks, while also receiving 6 or 7 IVs at the same time (continuously). It was constant torture that I cannot describe. I was no longer treated as a human with feelings and a life. I was nothing more than a covid vaccine human guinea pig and the doctors excited to participate in my fascinating progression unto death. If you want to know more, please ask my wife. I wished I would have never gotten vaccinated. If you are not vaccinated, don’t do it unless you are ready to suffer and die.”
Mike did not deserve the pain and suffering he endured. He was a good man and deserved better.
Mike was born in San Jose, California and moved to Gilroy at age one, where he resided for the last 55 years.
Mike attended Las Animas Elementary and Gilroy High schools. He graduated from both San Jose State University and Santa Clara University earning several scholastic degrees.
Mike was an intelligent man but never flaunted it. Mike chose to clothe himself in humility, kindness and gentleness every day, and preferred to work quietly behind the scenes doing good deeds and expecting nothing in return.
Michael was a licensed professional engineer and the owner of Engineering By Design, Design Engineering and Professional Engineering and Design. For the last 10+ years Michael worked in the Marine industry utilizing his IP for design and engineering that is known and used worldwide.
Michael could be seen twice daily walking his Golden Retriever around the neighborhood or up at Gavilan College for the last 20+ years in his jeans, t-shirt and hat.
Michael was proud to be a gear-head, a true car restoration enthusiast and tinkerer.
Mike loved spending time with his wife, his dog, his cars and playing the drums as he was quite a gifted musician.
Michael was preceded in death by his brothers Anthony Edward Granata and Salvatore Anthony Granata.
Michael is survived by his wife, Susie Granata of Gilroy, his parents Anthony and Elizabeth Granata of Morgan Hill; his sister Catherine Flowers (John) of Brentwood, CA; Nieces: Heather Trumbull (Christopher), Mindy Peterson (Ryan), Jeannene Brady, and Alyssa Granata, and great nephews and niece: Anthony and Trevor Peterson, and Karlie and Colin Trumbull.
Funeral:
Viewing:
Habing Family Funeral Home, 129 4thStreet, Gilroy, CA 95020
Sunday, November 14, 2021, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Service:
Saint Mary Church, 11 First Street, Gilroy, CA 95020
Monday, November 15, 2021, Rosary: 9:30 a.m., Service: 10:00 a.m.
He was starved, dehydrated, pumped up with many harmful drugs like fentynal, pain killers, paralytic drugs, sedatives
And refused vitamin C IVs, probiotics, vitamins, and so many many other natural things, I requested to save his life.
I have hours and hours of recorded conversations of the doctors and CEOs, denying these things that would’ve saved his life. He had sepsis attacks three times in 30 days and a huge bedsore, because they would never be proactive only reactive.
If it’s true, that my suffering is caused by my mind, then I have control over the amount, the intensity and the duration of my suffering. This is a very profound teaching I have discovered lately. Emotion is energy in motion, and it’s something that happens outside of my conscious self, my true self, the one who is aware, and observing my life as if it’s a Movie. A good movie will draw in all of my emotions and senses, and make me lose consciousness of space and time , and step into an altered reality of someone else’s story. I’m thinking if I approach what happens on the outside, thoughts and emotions, events, and encounters with people, as a movie, I’m watching, and I play the part of the observer, I may be able to diminish the suffering caused by my mind, and tell myself a different story. After all, it’s my story, I am writing it, I get to choose what I want to experience. I get to partner with my Creator, the author of my story, because he gave me that authority and that is my role, to co-partner, co-author and to Co-create a beautiful life out of the brokenness of this world that caused my heart to break and shatter into 1 million pieces. I can choose to surrender my need for certainty, my need to know my future, to have security and safety, and I can choose to believe that all will be well, that all is well, that things are happening for me not to me, that things May look like a problem, but truly, they are a gift. I can choose not to listen to that voice in my head, that inner critic that talks nonstop and rarely has anything positive to contribute, the voice that says things I would never tolerate from a friend, so why do I let the imposter speak into my life every second that I am awake ? No, I have the power to silence the inner critic, and create a different path for my future by learning to be in the moment . As Sonia Ricotti, so eloquently, says, “great things are waiting for you around the corner. In fact, they have arrived.” This week, I have studied Michael Singer, author of the untethered soul, and Sonia Ricotti, maker of the film unsinkable.
This is so huge! It’s been the biggest stress haunting me of all the tasks I’ve faced this year. I was so scared, I felt so lost, I didn’t hire an attorney, I represented myself.
I’m so thankful the potential lawsuit was resolved for my tiny house company. Todd started the project and was unable to fix mistakes made by the factory owner. The guy took a whole year to do the right thing by me and my client.
Thank you for praying, we have one more in the circuit to get resolved. I need wisdom.
24 years ago today, I made a choice that changed the path of my life. I was beaten, broken and headed for my grave.
For years, from the age of 17 to 32, I had chosen to submerge myself in alcohol and ultimately drugs.
Approximately one year prior, I had returned home to Bloomington to check into rehab. I weighed 132 pounds and was a shadow of my former self, physically – mentally and spiritually. I went thru rehab, moved in with my parents and found a job making $8 an hour and started my life over.
Then I met my amazing wife, Sarah Clothier Zanoni. We started dating and I didn’t think I could be cool and not drink and date this beautiful woman. The drinking led right back to the drugs. For 12 months I put Sarah thru hell, until she reached her breaking point 24 years ago today.
For whatever reason, God spoke to me that day and showed me a path that I have followed since. There have been incredibly trying times and incredibly fulfilling times, but one thing has been constant….the love of my amazing wife and the spiritual path I chose to follow.
My gratitude and pride for where I am as a man today is overwhelming. My love for my wife, my family and my life has my heart and soul full.
Life is not always easy and there are constantly obstacles that seem insurmountable! But one thing I have learned every step of the way is that if you let go and let God, everything ALWAYS works out the way it is supposed to.
Today I share this in hopes of helping someone else that is in a similar place that I existed for far too long. I want people to know that are struggling that you can have the life you desire and you can be proud of who and what you are…..you just have to make the decision and take the first step in the spiritual direction.
Life is such a blessing and I am definitely a blessed man!!
Maybe one day I’ll write a book because it really is unbelievable that I am still standing and smiling.
If you knew what I’ve been through behind the scenes in the last 18 months, you would agree with me! I imagine the amount of stuff you already know, you would agree, But there are many things I do not share: from business lawsuit threats to a personal cancer scare, unwanted marriage proposals, CPS threats to take my son, even bullying and harassing that happened by hospital CEOs while he was ill to using an outhouse this past year (long story but no septic), bad bad business partners (one in motion before he dies and one after) and family drama in that time frame that would make a sane person question their sanity.
Also, beware of Local business owners taking advantage of vulnerable widows in this town.
Oh and did I mention the work that goes into preparing for a medical lawsuit for a Covid Widow??
Maybe one day I’ll write a book because it really is unbelievable that I am still standing and smiling.
So far everyone who has tried to harm me has not succeeded by the grace of God. God promised to protect widows and He promised justice and truth will win!
