The Voice That Wouldn't Be Silenced: One Woman's Fight Through Cancer, Trauma, and Near Death

Alicia Rush was in crisis and had reached the point where she no longer wanted to live. She gathered her medication and headed toward the woods, but then remembered it was her son's birthday — a moment that interrupted her plan and helped pull her back. It was not the only time Alicia felt that level of hopelessness. After thyroid cancer left her living with a tracheostomy, she felt isolated in…