
Presence for Life’s Thresholds:

Presence for Life’s Thresholds:
I’m Ryan Schmidt — an interfaith hospice chaplain, spiritual care practitioner, death dula, retreat facilitator, podcast co-host, and guide for people moving through grief, transition, and deep questions of meaning.
My work lives at the threshold where loss, love, masculinity, ritual, and spiritual formation meet.
For more than twenty years, I have walked with people through illness, loss, grief, spiritual questions, and life’s thresholds. My work has taken shape in schools, hospitals, hospices, faith communities, volunteer organizations, men’s circles, retreats, and spaces of spiritual direction.
Again and again, I have found that what people need most is not someone to fix them, but someone willing to be present — to listen deeply, honor what is real, and help create space for meaning, grief, courage, and love to emerge.
Today my work moves through several connected streams: grief and transition support, community ritual and ceremony, men’s work through Illuman of Texas & Oklahoma, and the Remembering You podcast with my wife, Aliceanne.

Grief is not a problem to solve. It is a human response to love, change, death, and the breaking open of the life we thought we knew.
I offer grounded, compassionate support for individuals, families, caregivers, and groups navigating loss, illness, end-of-life, and major life transitions.

Ritual gives form to what the heart already knows.
In seasons of grief, transition, initiation, or change, ceremony helps us slow down, listen deeply, and mark what matters. I help individuals, groups, and communities create simple, meaningful rituals that honor loss, love, memory, belonging, and becoming.

Remembering You is a podcast and evolving community hosted by Aliceanne and Ryan. Together, we explore psychology, consciousness, story, spirituality, and what it means to come home to ourselves beneath the noise of modern life as individuals and a couple.

A growing collection of reflections, guided practices, grief resources, podcast links, and ritual tools to support presence, meaning-making, healing, spiritual formation, for life’s many thresholds.

My men’s work is rooted in presence, honesty, ritual, nature, Council, grief work, and the lifelong path of becoming a more grounded, generative human being.

Reach out to schedule a complimentary conversation, ask questions, request more information, or explore grief support, ritual guidance, men’s work, spiritual direction, or speaking opportunities.
