"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."                                                              ~Albert Einstein

Biography

Michael Grady was born second of six children in an Irish-catholic family. His father was an alcoholic and a schizophrenic with anger and rage issues. Eventually he committed suicide when Michael was only 13 years old and at that time, he was in the middle with experimenting with drugs and alcohol. These years were quite turbulent for him. Immense amounts of anger and rage, acting out, getting in trouble with school and at home, many fights and overdosing on acid. Even at an early age, Michael was constantly getting into trouble. In grammar school, he started a riot on the playground and then was banished from it for the rest of the year.

A year later, he started a food-fight in the cafeteria and then was forced to go home to eat lunch. In the 6th grade, he had a teacher that decided to give him a break. The teacher made a deal with his mother. If he behaved and did all of his school work Monday - Thursday, he did not have to go to school on Fridays. This was the only way that he was able to pass Elementary School. Junior High school involved a worse attitude, more drug and alcohol use, which resulted in more fights. He fought with other students and even teachers. His anger was at such a high level that it eventually led to being in trouble with the law and being arrested at age 15 for stealing a couple of school buses with his friend and "partner in crime".

After being arrested and feeling like his life was falling apart, he did something that he never did before, he prayed. "God if you are real, get me the hell out of here". The next day his mother and stepfather approached with an opportunity to move to Maine and live and work on a farm. He was there in a hurry . He went from being a hell-raising kid on the streets to a healthy country boy. After cleaning out his mind, body and soul, he started asking questions like "if there is a God, why is there so much evil in the world." etc. This brought him to deciding to hitchhike around the continent U.S., Canada and Mexico at the ripe age of 17. He was seeking life's answers, enjoying traveling adventures, mountain climbing and meeting all different kinds of people. He felt as if the people he was meeting had become more bad, evil and dangerous or more good, loving and caring.

It seemed that all of the "good" people that he had met were Christians. This had gotten his attention and he started reading the Bible. He even began talking to God, to whom which he had many issues with. This was a stepping stone in the process of Michael becoming a Christian.

After becoming a Christian and going to A Bible College, he started out with expectations of living in a community of people who loved and forgave each other. This expectation was popped like a balloon after experiencing many things as a Christian, such as a church splits with corruption by leaders and high levels of hypocrisy. Another disappointment was the failure in his marriage, followed by a long custody battle for his only son. All illusions of a Christian community with love and forgiveness seemed lost to him.

Until he took a 4-day retreat/workshop called Momentous, where he met Christian and non-Christians working through troubling situations and learning to forgive each other and eventually love each other in a safe environment. This was Michael's first exposure to Christian Life Coaching or Transformational Trainings or what you would call practical trainings in living Biblical principles in a real way. This process also got him into diving into forgiveness in a way that he was responsible to live it out everyday even if no one around him did. He knew his power source was from above and would not fail him.

Michael's been involved with Transformational Trainings and Life Coaching for about 15 years and has been studying the subject of forgiveness since 1988.

Everyone seems to have weaknesses and hardships in life. Michael's weakness was over reacting, being out of control with his anger or acting out in different ways when he was offended or falsely accused.

Many situations came up that he wanted to run away from and he did, but when it came to almost loosing his son, he made a stand and walked through all of the hard stuff -being falsely accused, dealing with his emotions, being responsible for his part, working on his anger and walking through difficult situations instead of running away from them.
Learning to be responsible, to forgive no matter what anyone says or does to him.

"THATS FREEDOM" One day at a time.

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