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    The Creative Journal for Teens, Second Edition: Making Friends With Yourself
    The Creative Journal for Teens, Second Edition: Making Friends With Yourself
    The Creative Journal for Teens, Second Edition: Making Friends With Yourself
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    The Creative Journal for Teens, Second Edition: Making Friends With Yourself

    By Lucia Capacchione

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    Helps teenagers express their true feelings and thoughts in the safe, nonjudgmental atmosphere of personal journal keeping.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Page Books
    Release dateJan 11, 2008
    ISBN9781601635860
    The Creative Journal for Teens, Second Edition: Making Friends With Yourself
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    Lucia Capacchione

    Lucia Capacchione is the bestselling author of The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself, Recovery of Your Inner Child, and many other Creative Journal Method books for recovery, healing, and life planning. Her work and professional training program have found an international audience, and her books have been translated into multiple languages.

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      Book preview

      The Creative Journal for Teens, Second Edition - Lucia Capacchione

      OTHER WORKS BY DR. LUCIA CAPACCHIONE

      Books

      The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself

      The Creative Journal for Children

      The Creative Journal for Parents

      The Power of Your Other Hand

      Recovery of Your Inner Child

      Visioning: Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams Putting Your Talent to Work (with Peggy Van Pelt)

      The Well-Being Journal

      Lighten Up Your Body, Lighten Up Your Life (with Johnson and Strohecker)

      The Picture of Health: Healing Your Life with Art Living with Feeling: The Art of Emotional Expression

      Tapes

      The Wisdom of Your Other Hand (5 tapes on The Creative Journal and art therapy, inner family work, body/mind healing, relationships and career) Sounds True

      The Picture of Health Audio Tape (Guided Meditation/Journaling)

      The Sound of Feelings (set of 5 tapes or CDs) music by Jessie Allen Cooper with Lucia Capacchione narrating

      For information regarding materials, public presentations, consulting, or the Creative Journal Expressive Arts certification training program, contact:

      Lucia Capacchione

      P.O. Box 1355

      Cambria, CA 93428

      (805) 546-1424

      Web site: www.luciac.com

      This edition first published in 2002 by New Page Books, an imprint of

      Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

      With offices at:

      65 Parker Street, Suite 7

      Newburyport, MA 01950

      www.redwheelweiser.com

      www.newpagebooks.com

      Copyright © 2002 by Lucia Capacchione

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

      Thanks to Ohio University Press for the use of quotations and art from The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself by Lucia Cappachione. Copyright © 1980 by Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio.

      ISBN: 978-1-56414-572-7

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Capacchione, Lucia.

      Creative journal for teens : making friends with yourself / by Lucia Cappachione.--2nd ed.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references (p.).

      ISBN 13: 978-1-56414-572-7 (pbk.)

      1. English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching. 2. Diaries--Authorship.

      3. Self-perception in adolescence. 4. Creative ability in Adolescence. I. Title.

      LB15676.C3164 2001

      808′.06692--dc21

      2001044270

      Cover design by Lu Rossman/Digi Dog Design

      Interior by B. Rosen

      Printed in the United States of America

      IBI

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      www.redwheelweiser.com/newsletter

      Dedicated to

      teenage diarists

      ANNE FRANK

      and

      ANAÏS NIN

      for their inspiration and guidance and

      to my daughters, CELIA and ALETA,

      for their invaluable help

      in developing this book.

      THANKS

      To my editor, Francesca Nemko, for her patience and tireless

      work in assisting me to complete this book for publication.

      To Ann Tidwell of Venice High School, Venice, Florida and Ruth

      Stanton of Hoover High School, Glendale, California

      for using this manuscript with their students

      and gathering examples of journal work

      To all the young people who so generously shared their drawings

      and writings as illustrations. Without their wonderful

      journal work, this book would not have been possible.

      Their names are:

      Don Badalamenti

      Brian J. Birch

      Jim Butler

      John Creasy

      Rob Eddy

      Jeff Fulcher

      James Given

      Jason Gomez

      Julie Grafil

      Racquel Claudia Grant

      Missi Groves

      Jesse Gura

      Kevin Hanley

      Glenis Harps

      Sean Holbert

      Jay Heldebrandt

      Adrine Khachatrian

      Jason King

      Lynne LeVesque

      Brad Lugar

      Richard Martin

      Cher McBrayer

      Jenny McClain

      Martin M'Guire

      Curtis Myers

      Heather O'Brien

      Amanda Oster

      Celia Pearce

      Mike Rafavielle

      Ileana Rivera

      Kim Sangster

      Raed Shehead

      Sabrina Stella

      Jennifer Standridge

      Jennifer Svendsen

      Michelle Wachelka

      Noel West

      Mike Williams

      Ben Wood

      Eric Woods

      Chen Yu

      And thanks to:

      My publisher, Ron Fry, for his continued support,

      and the designers, for their fine presentation of this book.

      Contents

      CHAPTER ONE: BEGINNINGS

      What is Creative Journal-Keeping?

      Forms of Expression

      Talent and Creativity

      Uses of Creative Journal-Keeping

      Guidelines for Creative Journal-Keeping

      Materials for Creative Journal-Keeping

      Preparing to Work in Your Journal

      CHAPTER TWO: WHAT'S HAPPENING?

      Off the Top of My Head

      Feelings

      Today

      Where I'm At

      At This Time

      A Day in the Life

      What's on My Mind

      Current Challenges

      CHAPTER THREE: MORE ABOUT ME

      Self-Portrait

      My Life: History Time Line

      I Remember

      My Story

      Going Through Changes

      Who Am I?

      Inside / Outside

      Awards

      CHAPTER FOUR: GETTING IT ALL TOGETHER

      This Is Your Life

      Getting It All Together

      Who I Am Becoming

      My Body/Myself

      My Philosophy of Life

      I Believe

      Likes and Dislikes

      What I'm Good At

      Hobbies and Pastimes

      The New Me

      Answering Back

      Taking Care of Myself

      CHAPTER FIVE: ME AND OTHERS

      Family Portrait

      Family Tree

      Parents

      My Favorite Person

      My Support System

      Letter to Someone

      If I Were a Parent

      If I Were a Teacher

      A Real Pal

      Heroes/Heroines

      Top Ten

      Don't Like

      Invent-a-Friend

      My Ideal Partner

      CHAPTER SIX: MY WORLD

      Back to Nature

      My Favorite Things

      My Space

      My Home

      My School

      The Ideal School

      My Favorite Place

      What I Wear

      Food

      CHAPTER SEVEN: CREATING MY FUTURE

      Dreams of Glory

      The Time Machine

      I Wish

      Dream House

      What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

      The Wings of Dreams

      Rewriting My Life

      Creative Dreaming

      A Better World

      Treasure Map

      QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

      LETTER FROM LUCIA

      RECOMMENDED READING

      CHAPTER ONE

      Beginnings

      When I was a little girl, my mother had a book that fascinated me. Bound in brown alligator skin with gold edging on the pages, it had the word Diary embossed in gold on the cover. There was a leather flap from the back cover to the front that kept the book secured shut with a shiny gold lock. My mother never locked her diary, however, for she never wrote in it. There were no secrets inside, only a tiny gold key in a little paper envelope. There were no words written on its neatly lined pages.

      I loved that little empty diary, and enjoyed thumbing through its blank pages. Maybe it was its antique appearance that appealed to me—the bumpy leather binding, the richness of the gold edged pages, the shininess of the miniature lock and key. The book was so fancy that I couldn't imagine anyone actually writing in it. Also, there was something wonderful and mysterious about the blankness of the book: It was full of possibilities.

      Then one day I was given a diary of my own. It wasn't as fancy as my mother's (it had a royal blue imitation leather cover), so

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