Life’s Concerto

Product Description

Every journey requires a compass. Through Life’s Concerto, Terri Goslin-Jones lays out one such compass, that of poetry and expressive arts. This work can serve as a guidebook to those traveling alone or with companions; it depends entirely on the depth of excavation one is willing to do within themselves. Expressing oneself through poetry is a necessity on this journey, while the expressive arts serve as stepping stones down the path of the pilgrimage within. This book is a beautiful companion to the traveler who has just taken their first steps and to the one who is already well on their journey.

Bahareh Amidi, PhD, Poet, Educator, Social Activist

Terri Goslin-Jones creatively and wholeheartedly shares a journey of wholeness through poetry and expressive arts. After readingLife’s Concerto, I am excited to recommend this book to those who are searching for poetic inspiration about life and in-depth knowledge via soulful words. As an expressive arts therapist, I see possibilities of wisdom emerging to breathe, play, imagine, create, listen, improvise, understand, heal, and be transformed from poetry.

Fiona Chang-Foo, PhD, REAT, RSW, Certified Supervisor, Founding President, Expressive Arts Therapy Association of Hong Kong, Faculty, Person-Centered Expressive Arts

Psyche is made conscious only when it inhabits an image, be it in the body, in one’s patterns, or in dreams.  Terri Goslin-Jones’ Life’s Concerto is a summons and a guide to activate the psyche, see what images arise, and to enlarge conscious life by including the energies each image brings. In this way, one begins to integrate those aspects of one’s soul otherwise denied, buried, split off. As a result, one grows less at odds with oneself.

James Hollis, PhD, Jungian analyst in Washington, DC and Author

Terri Goslin-Jones and her unique Concerto make an inspiring new contribution to the ‘universal story’ of how art heals everywhere, now and in the past. The sharing of her poems, together with rich visual imagery, revives the tradition of illuminated manuscripts, crystallized by the Monastic Mother series, inviting the creation of sacred places for artistic expression in each of us.

Shaun McNiff, PhD, author of Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go, Art as Medicine, Art Heals, Imagination in Action: Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression, and other books

Let me first share on a personal level my respect for Terri Goslin-Jones’ deep commitment to staying faithful to the creative journey and facing all its facets with humble dignity and creative and poetic practice. And – I love the artwork! It is my pleasure to quote the author of Life’s Concerto herself:

‘I do not want to be a crooked elder,
who cannot look people in the eye.  …
Why can’t I –
adjust and accept,
micro breakdowns
and shifts inside my body? …
Why wait for heaven, when the
Garden of Eden
resides in your backyard? …
Here am I …
adventure is essential,
to stay alert and alive. …’

Professor Margo Fuchs Knill, PhD, Founding Dean, Core Faculty, Division Arts, Health and Society, European Graduate School

The dawn of humanity saw the birth of the expressive arts as early humans drew, painted, danced, and chanted to enhance their connections with each other, with nature and the cosmos. Terri Goslin-Jones is a contemporary player in this tradition, using poetry and other arts to express her feelings and to share her wisdom with her fortunate readers and students.  Life’s Concerto is one of those rare books that will continue to inspire and instruct long after it is read.

Stanley Krippner, PhD, Psychologist, Researcher, Author, and Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies

Reading Terri Goslin-Jones book awakens a deep and transformative yearning for wholeness – through nature, through poetry, through creative expression. Her new book, Life’s Concerto, is a celebration of life and Kairos, life-time, awakening time. Don’t miss it.

Donald Moss, PhD, Professor and Dean, College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences, Saybrook University

WELCOME to a mystical and multisensory experience, a beautiful journey of holistic discovery, intertwined poetry, photography, and visual art. Life’s Concerto gives to each of us, the visionary reader (that is, to you and me, with a vast inner world unfolding in turn), an openness, adventure, and entanglement with life and one another. There is a seeking beyond illusions of fixed self to a fluid interdependence, a renewed sense of self-in-world, in a sea of change and mystery unseen, in vastness unmeasured, with a willingness to see anew and to know the self, world, and all beings in fresh ways.  The book builds and deepens—and it never ends.  Nor should it.  Plus, in some ways, as the poet says, we remain part of this—always.  Our truest mission is love. Do not miss this beautiful book.

Ruth Richards, MD, PhD, Professor Emerita, Saybrook University, Creativity Studies & Consciousness, Spirituality, and Integrative Health. Author of Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind: Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society (Silver Nautilus Award)

Life’s Concerto bids us enter two worlds at once—the world of reader and the world of co-creator. As Terri Goslin-Jones writes, “We travel together as part of a universal field.” This book is radiant proof that such collaborative journeying is possible. Through paintings, photographs, and poems—plus a host of resources including ideas to leap into your own creative practice—she offers us both inspiration and generous invitation. It’s a cocoon of a book. “Unbolt your inner threshold,” she encourages. “Dear One, you are safe to create.”

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, MA, author of The Unfolding and host of The Poetic Path on the Ritual App

At a time when our world seems tumultuous and troubling, the book Life’s Concerto, written by Terri Goslin-Jones, PhD, provides readers both an anchor and a salve that soothes. Terri’s book of heart-stopping poetry offers both an internal swim to soulful depths and a glorious creative study of our external world—both essential in grasping the lessons of life. As Terri states in her book, “Writing a poem is a way to cross over into an internal dwelling space and find puzzle pieces.” Her new book provides both exercises to join this creative process for one’s own growth, and poetic expressions of the heart and spirit to inspire and rise above the challenges we face.

Anin Utigaard, MFT, REAT, IEATA Co-Founder