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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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