MyInvisibleLife

Illness, whether it be terminal or mild is invisible to the everyday person. It is a life, equal to any other that many don’t understand or appreciate. You might reasonably ask – why should you be expected to understand or appreciate the life led by a person with a chronic illness?

It’s because with understanding comes respect and true empathy – two emotions that bind out humanity and our sense of community. Not only do we need genuine empathy and respect for people with chronic illness but many of those that don’t have a condition want to understand, if only to appreciate life and its daily ups and downs for what they are in the larger scheme of things.

It takes a relationship with another person to help us learn. This is the foundation of MyInvisibleLife – to connect people through honest and authentic storytelling. It is designed to be soothing to contribute to, entertaining and inviting to engage with, anonymous if you choose, honest, authentic and respectful of all.

MIL is a profit for purpose business model, where charities and NFP that support a chronic illness will always advertise for free and where profits made each quarter are donated to a worthwhile charity. You can become a MIL storyteller today. Share with us your invisible life because though you live it every day, others don’t. You can share your experiences and help others understand and help grow community understanding.

I was inspired to start My Invisible Life in honour of my friend Em who has Motor Neurone Disease.

Mel Zanello

My Invisible Life is a NFP blog of community stories about illness.

We strive to bring readers a broad, enriching and valuable range of personal stories about illness from around the world. These will be stories that are inspirational, heartfelt, motivational and authentic.

There are many stories online about people’s experiences living with illness, but these are usually posted within the confines of their own illness community. MIL brings us all together – large and small communities, those who live with illness directly, family and friends and the broader community.

Through compelling and invigorating storytelling, MIL will:

– Assist people in our community with chronic illness in feeling less isolated, more empowered and more connected to their world.
– Provide a vehicle for family and friends to speak out about their experiences.
– Enable the wider community to grow their understanding and appreciation what it is like to live with a challenging health condition – be it visible or invisible.

My Invisible Life was inspired by a friendship between two women living in Sydney, Australia – one has Motor Neurone Disease and the other Multiple Sclerosis. Read their story as an example of what is to come.

Tags:: NGO, Nonprofit, Organization
Category:: Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)

Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Sydney, NSW, Australia