self-discovery 
noun [mass noun]
The process of acquiring insight into one’s own character: the college experience might be described as a voyage of self-discovery...
- Race and locale are less important than the fact that the young characters are in the process of self-discovery.
- It is part of the process of self-discovery, of the very complicated moral problems Germany has with itself.
- It is therefore an act of self-transformation, in a continuous process of evolution and self-discovery.