Growing up can be hard; it is exciting, full of learning and adventure, but it can also feel overwhelming and like too much is happening. Sometimes, you can feel on track and like you have it all together, while other times, you feel anxious and insecure. This is normal. The goal isn't to figure everything out so you have no more questions. The goal is to build a set of inner skills, like feeling your emotions and translating them into words, skills that let you think about what's going inside of you, understand it, and communicate it to others in a healthy way. These strengths that you build right now, through accepting yourself, facing your real feelings and processing them, will serve you for the rest of your life! You learn to read so you can learn and grow. You learn "emotional literacy" so you can grow on the inside, so that you can process your feelings and learn from them. These years are the best time to get to know who you are and what you like.

And that's what this book is for. It has loads of creative ways to get to what you really feel and understand it better. You don't need to be the best to be great; in fact, needing to be the best all the time just gets in the way. You need to be you, to become your own, best friend. The exercises in this book will help you to do just that, so give them a try and get to know yourself, then you will have a friend for life!.