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 counseling—each chapter deepening my understanding of transformation as both wound and wisdom.

I have lived and studied in Germany, traveled the world, and speak in many tongues—each language 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 through but honored. My work invites women to pause at the doorway, to feel, to write, to rage, to rest—and ultimately, to cross into their next becoming with courage and clarity.

I left New York City to live at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains with a few good dogs, a library of old books, a wild garden, and fuel a fierce tenderness for the unloved parts of ourselves. Rooted in ancestral memory and drawn to the old ways, she spends her days making Spirit Dolls, mixing herbal tinctures, and dreaming by the fire as the sky shifts above her.

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.