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InvisiYouth to be Featured in the documentary, The Dark Horse, and Hosted an Even in London

February 8, 2020 This time last weekend, we were hearing all about the incredible success of our InvisiYouth event in London, hosted by our founder Dominique! And it wasn’t like any other event we’ve hosted before…because this was being filmed to be part of The Dark Horse film, directed by Ashleigh Harley. This film encompasses such an important focal point […]

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Spotlight Story Program: Meet Lauren Perry

Finding your community, building your network, and boosting yourself up. These are all things that our latest Spotlight Story Program feature writer has not only incorporated into her daily life, but has projected into her activism as she empowers other young people in the disability community. And that focus on connecting with others and becoming […]

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And the Total is in! InvisiYouth's Charity Teams for England's Superhero Disability Triathlon Raised a Total of...

By Dominique Viel September 8, 2017 After months of fundraising, campaigning with family and friends and online through our GoFundMe Page, InvisiYouth’s Charity Teams that participated in England’s first inclusive disability adaptive triathlon have ended their fundraisers. We received donations online and donations in the mail and on our website’s donate page too! We are happy to […]

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Spotlight Story Program: Devri Velazquez's Story

Meet Devri Velazquez Our latest Spotlight Story comes from someone we’ve adored for over a year now.  She’s not only got one of the best Instagram aesthetics we’ve ever seen, but she also has found a real niche for combining artistry with health activism. It is beauty and wellness editor and writer, Devri Velazquez.  Whether she […]

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When You’ve Got Health Hindsight: My 10-Year Anniversary with Chronic Illness

December 30, 2018 Well hello again, long time, no blog! It has clearly been a while since my last founder’s blog, but that’s just because InvisiYouth Charity has been keeping me so damn busy. (*and if you’ve been keeping up with InvisiYouth, you’ve gotten to know the reason for that is our new video podcast […]

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Spotlight Story Program: Rachel Mayo's Story

Meet Rachel Mayo As a university freshman, Rachel was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, and it changed her way of way. But Rachel decided to take her new diagnosis and not just better her life, but motivate others with T1D to do the same. And she’s been doing that across the United States ever since. Plus…we’re […]

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The Invisible Illness Chronicles: It Can Be Exhausting to Feel Like You Need To Act Healthy When You Don’t Feel Healthy

October 17th 2017 I constantly get questions about the hacks to living with chronic illness (I mean, that’s what InvisiYouth Charity’s mission in life is all about). Those questions double when it comes to life with an invisible illness. It only seemed appropriate that with part of my monthly blog I would wrote some blogs […]

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All of Those Exhilarating Peaks and Mega Excitements of My England Travels for InvisiYouth Charity

August 31st 2017 I recently took a trip to England all in the name of expanding InvisiYouth’s new programs and meeting with some of the amazing InvisiYouth supporters we’ve come to love and support over the years and charities we’ve admired for a while.  We have heard from some many of you that you wanted to […]

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Spotlight Story Program: Louise's Story

Meet Louise Cooper We’ve gotten to know Louise first as one of the cool British health and lifestyle bloggers that followed InvisiYouth, but we are getting to know her even better as a member of the InvisiYouth team for this winter’s Superhero Series Winter Games this December!  She’s an Ehlers Danlos Syndrome warrior that’s found ways […]

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Spotlight Story Program: Shira's Story

Meet Shira Strongin There is no joke around the statement that 18 year old Shira Strongin is an OG Sick Chick…in fact, she took her personal experiences growing up with chronic illnesses and built an entire international community surrounding the exact name, The Sick Chicks, all about empowering young women living with illness and disability. […]

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