Josie Varga does not consider herself disabled and never will. Her disability, she believes, is her strength, not her weakness. Despite having both cerebral palsy and bilateral hearing loss, she considers herself very fortunate as she prefers to live her life focusing on the positive.
Discovering her passion for writing as a little girl growing up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, she went on to earn a degree in journalism and worked her way up to Director of Communications and Editor for an international trade association where she met and interviewed celebrities, authors, speakers, sport personalities and others.
Josie later became a successful communications consultant while authoring her first book, Footpints in the Sand: A Disabled Woman’s Inspiring Journey to Happiness, which was published in 2004. Since then, she has become a motivational speaker encouraging audiences to strive to overcome and sharing the importance of having a positive mental attitude in life.
She just completed her second nonfiction book entitled, Make Up Your Mind to Be Happy: 101 Ways to Nourish Your Spirit and is already hard at work on a third. The latter is another nonfiction entitled, Visits from Heaven, which is a compilation of ADC (after death communication) experiences which have been validated in some way.
A creative thinker, she holds patents for two inventions. She has also copyrighted a treatment for a new reality television show which is now being considered by producers in New York City and Los Angeles, California.
Josie lives in Westfield, New Jersey with her husband and two children.
I am listening to [Josie] right now [on Toward The Light] and have chills. The whole thing with the butterflies, I totally experienced this. I have spoken to Josie before about this but now this just confirmed it. Two summers ago I constantly had butterflies and bird feathers falling around me. I knew this was my grandmother that had passed away 17 years ago. I went and visited her grave site cause I felt she was calling me there. Sure enough, after I had visited it all stopped........ I would like to say that Josie is the greatest person I have ever met.
