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Four doors into the work. Any of them is a good first step.
The Threshold Readiness Assessment
Discover Your Financial Wealthstyle
The Four Thresholds
The Eight Healing Paths
The thirteen Financial Wealthstyles
The Guardian
The Protector
The Anchor
The Visionary
The Steward
The Caregiver
The Creative
The Luminary
The Harmonizer
The Seeker
The Achiever
The Explorer
The Threshold
The framework, deeper
Thirteen archetypes, thirteen stones, and the thinking behind both.
How the Framework Was Built
Two Doors Into the Framework
The Stones of the Framework
The Compass Stones, Each in Full
The Compass Stone: Labradorite
About the Women You See on This Site
The four thresholds
The transitions this practice was built for.
Divorce
Widowhood
Caregiving
Disruption
When Transitions Converge
Divorce Financial Strategy for Women
The Generational Letters
Written for where you are in life, not just what you are going through. Read them here, at your own pace.
The Gen X Financial Reckoning
The Millennial Financial Reckoning
The Boomer Financial Reckoning
The Later Life Financial Reckoning
The Healing Path Letters
Fifteen letters, each one written for a single thing a woman might be carrying. They are grouped here by healing path. Start wherever the description sounds like your own life.
Scarcity
What She Taught You Without Meaning To
for the woman with a lost or challenged relationship with her mother
Control
What You Found, and What It Costs to Have Found It
for the woman who lived under financial control, or discovered financial infidelity
Silence
The Conversations He Never Had With You
for the woman with a lost or challenged relationship with her father
Loss
When Grief Arrives With Paperwork
for the woman heavy in grief
The Loss That Has No Word
for the mother who has lost a child to death
She Is Here and She Is Gone
for the woman whose parent is still alive but no longer knows her
The Life That Did Not Arrive
for the woman who is childless, not by choice
Betrayal
The Marriage That Ran on Your Doubt
for the woman who lived with a narcissistic spouse
The Debt You Found After the Funeral
for the woman who found the debt after he was already gone
Forgiveness Without an Apology
for the woman who forgave someone who never apologized
Guilt and Shame
The Child Who Is Alive and Gone
for the mother who has lost a child to the strain of relationship
Over-Responsibility
The One Who Was Never Off Duty
for the eldest daughter who has carried the family since childhood
Legacy
When Both Chairs Are Empty
for the woman who has lost both parents
The Sister You Are Not Speaking To
for the woman with a broken relationship with her sister
The letter that closes the series
Permission to Wallow
for the woman who needs to wallow
Letters
Longer pieces, written for the questions each transition actually raises. Read them here, at your own pace.
Widowhood and What Comes Next
Caring for Others While Protecting Yourself
Her Inheritance Era
The Honest Money Conversation
Finding True North
Free guides
Working documents with checklists and worksheets. Each one arrives by email.
The Threshold Letter
The Financial Transition Guide
Before You Sign Anything
About and story
Who is behind this work, why it exists, and where it shows up beyond this site.
Born For This
Meet Teresa
About the Women You See on This Site
Stories
Speaking
Press and Media
Resources
Working with Teresa
When reading is no longer enough and you want a person across the table.
Working Together
What You Can Expect
Fee Structure
Meet Teresa
Contact
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Threshold Compass Strategies · Fee-Based Financial Planning for Women in Transition
Threshold Compass Strategiesā„¢ is a Wisconsin-based Registered Investment Advisory Firm registered with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions. Teresa McAlpine, CDFA, BFA, is a fee-based financial planner. This content is educational and is not personalized financial, legal, or tax advice.