CaringBridge vs Flourish

CaringBridge is a no-cost, 501(c)(3) nonprofit health platform that surrounds family caregivers with support while they care for a loved one on a health journey. A donor-supported nonprofit founded in 1997, the organization offers tools to share and document a health journey, simplify care coordination, and connect caregivers with a supportive community. CaringBridge addresses feelings of overwhelm, isolation, and loneliness by improving emotional health and social connectedness, helping people come together in support of healing. With over 300,000 people on the platform every day sending or receiving support, there are over 1,600 messages of love, hope, and compassion posted every hour. And every 12 minutes a new CaringBridge page is started. The CaringBridge community includes all 50 states and more than 242 countries around the world. To learn more visit www.caringbridge.org. Private, protected, and ad-free · A trusted, private, and ad-free space that only a nonprofit like CaringBridge can provide to support family caregivers and their loved ones on a health journey. Communicate to everyone all at once · Communicate to everyone all at once in a safe and private space, relieving the burden of individually updating people. Capture and process every step of the health journey · The very act of capturing a loved one’s health journey improves emotional health and social support. Coordinate care with family and friends · Making it easy to ask for help, because we know it’s often the most difficult thing to ask for.

Flourish is your safe space to learn, share, and find strength in a community that gets what it's like to live with a breast cancer diagnosis or risk. Whether you’re in-treatment or post-active treatment, living with early-stage or metastatic disease, or a caregiver, everything is better when we’re in it together — especially coping, managing, and living with breast cancer. Brought to you by the team at Living Beyond Breast Cancer. Use Flourish for: A community of support: Connect with other people who ‘get it’. Safe sharing: Share and process your feelings in a secure and judgement-free zone. Trusted information: Access expert-reviewed medical information and practical tips for coping, managing, and living with breast cancer. Self-advocacy: Learn the skills and get the resources to share your breast cancer experience to help others. Events: Discover live and recorded webinars and special events. You can’t undo a diagnosis, but Flourish can help you live better with breast cancer. Download Flourish today and for access to information and support. How to Flourish Be supportive. Encourage and support your fellow participants. No one here is looking for criticism, cynicism, advice, or judgement. (We can get those things on the rest of the Internet). Share generously. Your stories and experiences may be exactly what another participant needs to hear today to solve a problem or seize an opportunity. Be constructive. We’re here to push each other forward and lift each other up. Find ways to help each other think bigger, reframe challenges, and stay curious. Don’t spam, promote, or troll. Flourish exists to help you learn. It’s not a place to spam, promote, or bully anyone else.