Medicine Beyond Medicine with Alicia Ashorn & Anthony Thigpen

<p>Community health workers Alicia Ashorn and Anthony Thigpen share their personal stories—Alicia's journey through addiction and recovery, and Anthony's path through grief, transformation, and reentry work—and how these experiences shape their care for people returning from incarceration. In the conversation that follows, they reflect on the power of storytelling, the emotional complexity of supporting clients in crisis, and the wisdom required to balance compassion with boundaries. Through vivid anecdotes from the field, they illuminate the essential yet often unseen role of community health workers as bridges between the clinic and the community, offering trust, dignity, and hope to people navigating systems that routinely fail them.</p> <p>Alicia and Anthony originally told their stories at <em data-start="137" data-end="200">Journeys of Healing: Stories of Resilience and Transformation</em>, a storytelling event presented by <a href="https://transitionsclinic.org/">Transitions Cli...