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This journal has been designed to be a life-changing experience for you, the young journalist. It is a guided journal exploring personal values, beliefs, memories, and goals in discovering one's own self and personal identity. It has tips, tricks, and games to help navigate through this stage of life successfully. The prompt on the top of each page eliminates the stress of trying to figure out what to write. When the journal is all filled up, it can be burned as a way of letting go of all your past pain, regrets, or resentments allowing you to move forward freely.This journal includes over 100 entries, each with a carefully thought-out and customized prompt based on Erik Erickson's Stages of Psychosocial Development. According to this theory, successful completion of each stage results in a healthy personality and the acquisition of basic virtues. Your personality directly affects how you conduct yourself and how you live your life. In more ways than one, your personality directly affects your success in life. This journal is customized based on the fifth stage of Erikson's theory; identity vs. role confusion, and occurs during adolescence, from about 12-18 years. This stage plays an essential role in developing your sense of personal identity which will continue to influence your behavior and development for the rest of your life. Those who receive proper encouragement and reinforcement through personal exploration will emerge from this stage with a strong sense of self and feelings of independence and control. Those who remain unsure of their beliefs and desires will feel insecure and confused about themselves and the future. The customized journal prompts help navigate you through successful completion of this stage. Journaling enables you to get to know yourself better and take an active role in maintaining control of your thoughts and worries. Journaling boosts morale, and also helps you to recognize if you might actually need extra help. There continues to be