You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have.

It's like you're organically developing yourself, moving out, metamorphosing into other forms depending on where you are, what you're doing at the time, how you want to play on things.

I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.

I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

Often when people tell their story, they talk about their strengths and resiliency. It's really about their determination and their aspiration to survive and live.