One of my areas of interest are archetypes. I see Ren as embodying AND empowering two archetypes---the Wounder Healer and the Bard.

Our world is full of wounded people. The beautiful offering of the Wounded Healer archetype is that it's by facing our wound and then sharing from that vulnerable place that we both heal ourselves and others. In the mythological character of Chiron, which is associated with the Wounded Healer, the wound is permanent, so it's not a matter of denying or moving past the wound, it's a matter of it empowering us. One of the ways it does this is it opens our hearts, we recognize that the pain we feel is pain others feel, too, and so it's from this place of compassion that we act.

As for the Bard, well, Ren is using his incredible gift of language and music to spin stories into the world that offer deep, powerful, uplifting commentary on what it means to be human.

When someone acts from powerful archetypes like this---whether or not they are conscious of it---it gives that person a lot more resonance.

Anyway, this is kind of a rough outline for an article I'm thinking about writing. I'd not only talk about Ren but tie it into my personal experience with addiction and recovery, which is also a path many Wounded Healers go on.