Wisdom Maps
map no. 1
Crossing the Threshold
ready to live in ever-widening circles —
holding all she’s become while remaining
fluid enough to become what’s next.
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Wisdom Maps
map no. 1
Crossing the
Threshold
For the woman in the second half of life, ready to live in ever-widening circles — holding all she’s become while remaining fluid enough to become what’s next.
Something is Waiting to Emerge
You’ve spent decades learning how to show up for others. How to hold what needs holding. How to navigate complexity with grace. You’ve been accumulating wisdom with every choice, every challenge, every season you’ve weathered. You’re formidable at it.
But something is waiting to be released.
All that wisdom, all that strength, all that fierce capability you’ve been directing outward? It’s ready to serve you now in a completely different way. Not just as the woman who holds things together, but as the woman who can hold multiple ways of being without losing her center.
The threshold you’re standing in holds both grief and excitement — grief for the structures that served you but are now too small, excitement for the ever-widening circles calling you forward.
You don’t have to choose one version of yourself anymore. You don’t have to perform consistency.
This is not confusion.
This is not restlessness without reason.
This is a threshold.
Thresholds Have Always Been Sacred
Every woman who has ever stood where you are standing now — between who she was and who she is becoming, in the uncomfortable in-between, in the not-yet-knowing — she has been in the most alive moment of her life. Not despite the uncertainty. Because of it.
You are not lost. You are crossing.
Why Now?
Because you are in the crossing.
Not approaching it and not looking back at it. You are inside it — in the in-between, in the place where the old instructions have stopped working, and the new ones have not yet arrived.
The disorientation, the not-yet-knowing — this is not a problem to be managed. It is the threshold itself.
This practice was made for this moment. Not to rush you through it. To help you inhabit it fully and make something true from it.
Not by thinking your way through it.
By excavating your way through it.
This is not an art class. It is not a journaling practice. It is mixed media inner work — a way of excavating what you already know through image, the way symbols work, the way layers reveal what words cannot yet reach.
A complete mixed media spread — a visual map of the inner landscape of a threshold you are navigating.
Not a journal page. Not a scrapbook. A layered, mixed-media spread in your Book of Wisdom that holds what words alone cannot hold — the color of the in-between, the texture of what is loosening, the first visible shape of what is forming.
What lands on your page will be yours alone — drawn from your own inner landscape, not a copy of anyone else’s crossing.
Yours. Finished. Real.
You know something is asking.
- You may be sensing something shifting but don't yet have words for it.
- You may have spent decades tending everyone else's life and are ready to tend your own.
- You may be drawn to going deeper than words — to making meaning visible on a page.
- You may want a practice that meets you at actual depth, not performed wellness.
- You may have tried journaling but you're ready to excavate.
- You're ready to begin — even if you don't yet know what you're beginning
The Three Movements
The Structure of Your Spread
Your spread is not a single image. It is a landscape — a terrain you move through.
Each movement occupies its own ground, its own color, its own truth.
What You'll Experience
9 chapters. 18 lessons. 5 guided journal sessions
Also includes a downloadable supplies list, color palette, collage pack, and Wisdom Card — everything you need to begin.
This is Not a Typical Online Course
Crossing the Threshold is a single, continuous journey — designed to be moved through the way you move through a piece of music.
Everything you need is embedded in a beautiful, easy-to-follow, scrolling structure that you can return to at any time, on any device.
Hi, I'm Terri Altschul
I am a coach and practitioner of the sovereignty of becoming — working with women in the second half of life at the exact moment when everything they’ve lived is ready to be seen.
For over a decade I’ve been watching what happens when a woman stops trying to think her way through a threshold and starts making it visible instead. Through layered mixed media. Through color and image and symbol. Through the kind of depth practice that works the way the psyche actually works — not through analysis, but through excavation.
This work changed my life first. It gave me a way to move through what words alone couldn’t hold — and it revealed things I didn’t know I knew.
I created Crossing the Threshold because the threshold moment is where every woman I have ever worked with eventually arrives. And it deserves more than being rushed through.
No artistic skill required. Just willingness to enter the crossing.
— Terri Altschul, The Visual Journaler™
Before You Begin
Not at all. Crossing the Threshold is a mixed-media art practice, not an art class. The Practice Cards and progression guidance give your hands what they need. What matters is your willingness to be present — not your skill level.
Your spread will be entirely your own. The audio guidance and progression support are designed to draw out what's arising in you — not to lead you toward Terri's spread. You'll see Terri's process as a model for how to move, not what to make. What lands on your page will come from your own inner landscape. No two spreads from this map have ever looked the same.
A mixed-media journal or book with mixed media paper to — acrylics, mediums, collage, and mark-making. Basic supplies: acrylic paint, Gesso, Matte Medium, sponge brush, credit card for scraping, collage materials (paper, images, found objects), and a mark-making tool. A comprehensive supplist and downloadable collage materials are included inside the Map.
This is yours to move through at your own pace. Some women complete their spread in a single afternoon. Others return to it across several sessions. There is no timeline. The practice meets you where you are.
No. Crossing the Threshold is entirely self-paced. You access it on your own time, return to it whenever you're ready, and move through it at the pace your practice calls for.
Immediately after purchase, you'll receive access to your account at learn.thevisualjournaler.com. Crossing the Threshold lives there — ready whenever you are, with no expiration.
Yes — and you're encouraged to. A Wisdom Map is not a one-time experience. Return to it in a different season of life and it will give you something entirely new. Your purchase is permanent.
Crossing the Threshold is a digital practice with immediate, lifetime access. Because everything is delivered to you the moment you complete your purchase and remains yours from that moment forward, this purchase is final. No refunds. Please take your time on this page before you decide — and if you have questions before purchasing, reach out at to Terri at terri@thevisualjournaler.com.
Crossing the Threshold is designed to be self-guiding — the Visual Prompt Cards, Terri's Spread in Progress, and the Living the Questions prompts are all built to support you through every layer of the practice.
If you get stuck or have questions, you can reach Terri directly at terri@thevisualjournaler.com. She reads every message.
The Wisdom is Already Yours
This Is Where Your Practice Begins
Not given to you. Not taught to you. Created by you — excavated layer by layer, carried forward in your own hands.
No prior practice needed.
Terri Altschul is an ICF PCC—a Professional Certified Coach with more than 30 years of experience and thousands of coaching hours.
She works with women in the second half of life, drawing on Jungian depth psychology and Visual Wisdom Keeping to guide women across the threshold into wholeness.
Her gift is holding space for what's emerging—and helping you become who you haven't yet been.
