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Guiding women through the sacred passages of Middle Life and transformation.
The Feminine Threshold offers transformative courses and resources for women navigating (Peri)Menopause(Post)™, Middle Life, grief, and rebirth. Rooted in archetypal healing, feminist wisdom, and embodied storytelling, our offerings help you reclaim your voice, honor your sorrow, and step fully into the Crone you are becoming.
THE FEMININE THRESHOLD
It’s time to explore the quiet ache that says “something is ending—but I don’t know what’s beginning.”
Do any of these sound familiar?
You’ve poured yourself into caring for others—children, careers, communities—but now you’re asking: Who am I, when I’m not needed in the same way?
You feel the fire rising—rage, longing, intuition—but aren’t sure how to honor it without burning everything down.
You’re grieving more than just people—but are confused by the loss of old dreams, changing identities, or the woman you used to be.
You long for something deeper—soulful conversation, mythic meaning, a circle of women who get it—but don’t know where to begin.
The Feminine Threshold isn’t about quick fixes or polished perfection. It’s a soul-rooted space—woven with myth, writing, creative expression, mindfulness, and deep reflection—designed to help you honor your inner transitions, reclaim lost parts of yourself, and cross into your next becoming with clarity, courage, and grace.
Walking across the threshold, you’ll find rich resources, guided practices, and story-infused tools to support you through (Peri)Menopause(Post)™, Middle Life, grief, and the mystery of who you’re becoming now.
This is not just a journey.
It’s a remembering.
It’s a rite of passage.
It’s your threshold—and you’re ready.
If you’re walking through Middle Life, like millions of women among and before you,
YOU MAY WISH YOU COULD…
Feel at home in your changing body, your shifting roles, and the quiet unraveling of who you once were.
Reignite your creative fire—not to perform, but to remember who you are beneath the noise.
Grieve what’s been lost without shame, and grow something sacred from the ashes.
Find a circle of women who speak your language—dreams, symbols, belly-laughter, and truth.
You’re not alone.
And you don’t have to cross this threshold without a guide.
The courses
COURSE offerings
The Feminine Threshold: Self-Guided Explorations of Middle life and Meaning
11 Weeks of Deepening your Connection with Self, Soul, and the Divine Feminine
This course supports women looking to elevate their relationship with Self as Woman. In an empowering and inquisitive format, you will explore freedoms and challenges faced in our second half of life. Topics include raging, aging, self-esteem, relationships, body positivity, sexuality, parenting/parents, career/retirement, grief, and death anxiety.
If you are facing a new phase in life—Middle Life—when your body changes, your sense of being evolves, and your mind fills with questions, this course is meant for you.
Course content is guided by art, literature, and archetypes that evoke thoughts, emotions, and feelings. Leading you on your eleven-week-journey are works by women writers and poets, scholars, artists and musicians, and Jungian analysts, whose works spans across feminism, myth, ecology, psychology, neuroscience, fairytales, and folklore to explore women’s roles in the world—yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
A central thread throughout the course is the archetypal triad of Maiden, Mother, and Crone. These figures are not fixed life stages, but fluid energies that live within us across time. We’ll explore how the Maiden’s curiosity and naïvité, the Mother’s creativity and care, and the Crone’s wisdom and sovereignty each rise and fall in our lives—sometimes simultaneously—and how they can guide us into deeper self-understanding. In reclaiming these often-misunderstood archetypes, we make space for wholeness, honoring the many selves that shape our journey as women.
Writing My New Myth: A Journey through (Peri)Menopause(Post)™
11 Weeks of Archetypal Exploration, Embodied Insight, and Transformational Writing
This course is a mythic invitation to reimagine the (Peri)Menopausal(Post)™ journey as a sacred rite of passage. Through diverse and expressive writing forms—descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive—you will explore the psychic terrain of Middle Life, encounter inner archetypes, engage the shadow, and author a myth that honors the woman you are becoming.
Through the alchemy of writing and the power of myth, you’ll enter the liminal, meet the Crone within, and emerge as the Myth-Maker of your own becoming.
Each module offers a central theme from the heroine’s journey, a distinct writing style and genre, and reflective prompts grounded in body-based practices. With myth, metaphor, and memory as your guideposts, you’ll write your way through thresholds, underworlds, reclamations, and returns.
Writing your new myth isn’t just creative—it’s medicinal. As you give voice to the unspeakable and shape the formless, you generate insight, self-compassion, and clarity. You become the witness, the weaver, and the wisdom-keeper. This process can foster a deeper connection to your body, help release outdated identities, and affirm the emergent self who no longer fits into the old story. What you write becomes both map and mirror—a testament to your becoming and a guide for what lies ahead.
This is not simply a course in writing—it is a return to voice, a rewilding of self, and a ritual of remembrance. Your story is your power. Your pen is your torch. Let the myth begin.
Lisa Rainwater, PhD, is the founder of The Feminine Threshold, a gathering place for women crossing into the wild terrain of change—whether through grief, menopause, midlife, or the quiet awakenings of the soul.
MEET YOUR guide
Hi! Hallo! Hei! I’M Lisa.
With a lifelong devotion to stories, symbols, and the sacred rhythms of becoming, I bring together the threads of myth, shadow work, and lived experience to help women remember what they already carry.
Before founding The Feminine Threshold, I spent years immersed in literature, teaching, activism, and existential depth psychology—each chapter deepening my understanding of transformation as both wound and wisdom.
I have lived and studied in Germany, traveled the world, and learned many languages—each a doorway into another way of knowing. These journeys have deepened my devotion to the feminine, the imaginal, and the stories women carry in our bodies and bones.
I believe thresholds are not meant to be rushed across but honored. My work invites women to pause at the entrance, to feel, to write, to rage, to rest—and ultimately, to cross into their next becoming with courage and clarity on their own timeline.
As a depth psychotherapist, I offer individual, couples, and group therapy in North Carolina, Colorado, and Wisconsin. My clinical work is grounded in Jungian, existential, and narrative traditions, with an emphasis on grief, trauma, and transformational life transitions.
This new project comes out of years of working with women standing at the threshold of becoming. In honoring their inner work, I bring The Feminine Threshold to women across the globe as an offering of peace, loving-kindness, and sanctuary.
A lifelong advocate of feminist, environmental, and social justice causes, my work is deeply informed by my years of activism and nonprofit leadership. At the heart of The Feminine Threshold is my commitment to helping women reclaim the stories that have shaped them, the stories lost, and the stories yet told—and to discover the new myths that will carry them forward.
After two decades of calling Manhattan home, I moved to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains to commune with a spouse and a few good dogs, a circle of fierce and wise crones, a library of books, a subscription to The Criterion Channel, a wild garden, and horses.
WHAT TO EXPECT
By the end of your journey Across The Feminine Threshold, you will...
Emerge with a deeper understanding of yourself as a woman in transformation—rooted, radiant, and unapologetically whole. This isn’t just about gaining insight; it’s about reclaiming your voice, rewriting your story, and walking forward with fierce grace.
You’ll leave with a rich toolkit of soulful practices, creative rituals, and embodied wisdom to carry into your daily life. Most importantly, you’ll no longer feel like you’re navigating this passage alone—you’ll be part of a circle that sees you, honors you, and walks beside you.
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Reclaim the parts of yourself that have been silenced, softened, or scattered. This is a space to remember who you are beneath the roles, the noise, and the expectations.
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You don’t have to do this alone. Gather with women who speak the language of soul—curious, compassionate, and unafraid to explore the depths.
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Learn practices that help you meet change not with fear, but with fierce grace. We offer grounding tools for the mind, body, and psyche as you cross life’s thresholds.
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Through writing, myth, image, and ritual, you’ll tap into the wellspring of your inner knowing—and begin to speak and live from that place with confidence.
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What feels like an ending may be the beginning of something more true. This program helps you listen for what’s calling next—and gives you the courage to answer.
Step Beyond the Roles. Enter the Rite. Become the Woman Only You Can Be.
(Peri)Menopause(Post)™ isn’t an ending—it’s your call to initiation. Shed the roles that no longer fit. Tune out the noise and attune to the deeper voice within. Claim the wild intelligence that’s always been yours. Move through each threshold with mythic clarity, reflective practice, and archetypal guidance—and step fully into the woman you were meant to become.
