Create Your Book of Wisdom
Transform the stories of your life into wisdom
you can see, touch, and keep
Create Your Book of Wisdom
Transform the stories of your life into wisdom you can see, touch, and keep
Presence and Shadow
A biweekly letter exploring the themes that shape us — through seasonal rhythms, visual practice, and the wisdom hidden in what we create.
What You Know Now Was Earned, Not Learned
You’ve raised children or built a career or navigated loss—maybe all three. You’ve made hard choices. You’ve learned which battles to fight and which to release. You’ve survived things you didn’t think you’d survive.
And somewhere along the way, you started to understand things. Not from books or podcasts or advice columns—but from living. From failing and recovering. From loving and losing. From showing up, again and again, when no one was watching.
You have a knowing now that can only come from decades of being alive.
This isn’t something you learned. It’s something you earned.
This Deserves More Than Memory
Most women carry their wisdom quietly. It lives in their bones, in the advice they give at kitchen tables, in the steady presence they offer when someone else is falling apart. They know things—but they rarely write it down.
Memory fades. Stories go untold. The hard-won lessons—the ones that cost you something to learn—slip away without a record, without a witness.
What if you could hold your wisdom in your hands? Return to it when you doubt yourself? Pass it down to the daughters and granddaughters who will need it?
A Book of Wisdom isn’t a scrapbook. It’s a legacy. And something happens to you in the making of it.
This is what it means to keep your wisdom.
This Work Might Be For You If...
You have STORIES WORTH KEEPING—moments, memories, and hard-won lessons you don't want to fade away
You're drawn to CREATING WITH YOUR HANDS—color, texture, layers, something tactile that holds what words can't
You want MORE THAN A SCRAPBOOK—not just pretty pages, but pages that hold meaning and make it visible
You feel a PULL TO GATHER WHAT YOU KNOW—a refusal to let the wisdom you've earned simply disappear
You sense there's SOMETHING TO INTEGRATE—experiences, lessons, seasons of your life asking to be seen whole
You've kept journals or written for years—but you're curious what happens when you ADD IMAGE, COLOR, AND SYMBOL
You've always been curious about DREAMS, SYMBOLS, AND THE STORIES BENEATH STORIES—and you want to explore them with your hands
You believe the SECOND HALF IS FOR BECOMING—not slowing down, but finally becoming who you've always been
Something in you knows you're meant to be a WISDOM KEEPER—a woman who gathers, holds, and passes on what matters
A Unique Journey of Self-Discovery
Using a gentle 5-step mixed-media and coaching approach, I will guide you through a process that utilizes art materials as a means to access deeper wisdom and inner knowing.
What You'll Create
More than pages—a practice, a record, a legacy
A Book of Wisdom
A beautiful, tangible record of your life—your stories, lessons, and hard-won knowing. Something to hold and return to.
Handcrafted Pages
Layers of color, texture, image, and meaning—created with a variety of media. No artistic skill required.
Spaces for Reflection
Prompts and practices that help you slow down, look within, and find meaning in what you've lived—not just remember it.
A Creative Practice
Not a one-time project—an ongoing rhythm of reflection and creation that grows with you, page by page, season by season.
Creative Community
Other women doing this work alongside you. Sharing, witnessing, creating together. You don't have to do this alone.
A Personal Legacy
Something to pass down. For your children, grandchildren, or simply as a witness to your own becoming.
THIS IS VISUAL JOURNALING WITH MEANING
Meet Your Guide
Helping Women Create Something Beautiful From the Lives They've Lived
Hi! I’m Terri Altschul.
For over 30 years, I’ve been guiding women as a coach—through career changes, through motherhood, and now through the profound passage that comes in the second half of life. I’m an ICF-certified coach with over 4,000 hours of experience, trained in Jungian psychology, Integral Coaching, and developmental frameworks. I’ve sat with women in the hard places. I know what it takes to shift.
Somewhere along the way, I discovered that words alone weren’t enough. The deepest knowing doesn’t live in our heads—it lives in images, symbols, colors, and layers. That’s how The Visual Journaler was born: a fusion of deep coaching and the power of visual expression.
Today, I help women create Books of Wisdom—beautiful, handcrafted pages that do more than capture stories. They transform them. And often, they transform the woman making them.
This work meets you where you are. Some women come simply to create something meaningful. Some feel a pull toward something deeper and follow it. I’ve designed a path for both—a front door that welcomes everyone, and a journey that goes as far as your heart wants to take you.
If something here is stirring, trust it.
I’d love to create alongside you.
The Visual Journaler™
This isn’t scrapbooking. It isn’t art therapy. It’s a creative practice that transforms lived experience into wisdom—the kind of knowing that only comes from decades of learning, surviving, and showing up.
Through color, image, symbol, and layered composition, you’ll access what words alone can’t reach. The pages you create become more than memory. They become wisdom you can see, touch, and return to.
- Find the stories asking to be told—not just the ones you already know
- Work with image and symbol—the language beneath words
- Transform experience into wisdom—not just document it
- Access your inner knowing—what life has taught you, and what's still emerging
- Make the invisible visible—on the page and in yourself
- Integrate the parts of yourself that are asking to be seen—the light and the shadow, woven into one
Your Path to Creating a Book of Wisdom
Start where you are. Go as deep as you want.
start creating
Begin your Book of Wisdom. Learn the core techniques and discover what wants to emerge.
Free: Presence & Shadow newsletter, Book of Wisdom, T.R.A.C.E., Scattered to Sacred
Free: Presence & Shadow newsletter, Book of Wisdom, T.R.A.C.E., Scattered to Sacred
Deepen Your Practice
Go deeper with Terri's guidance—monthly themed experiences and a community of women creating alongside you.
Visual Wisdom Keeping, Story Maps, The Turning Series
Visual Wisdom Keeping, Story Maps, The Turning Series
GO DEEPER
For women feeling the pull toward deeper work—a transformative journey through life's passages.
Group Coaching and Private Coaching with Terri
Group Coaching and Private Coaching with Terri
"This work honors the life you've lived, the challenges that changed you, and the knowing you carry because of them. This is how wisdom finds its form."
The Open Page
WHERE WISDOM FINDS FORM
CREATING SACRED TEXTS OF YOUR UNFOLDING LIFE
We are delighted to invite you on a journey of transforming lived experience into wisdom—where depth psychology and visual wisdom keeping create sacred texts of your life.
