Recovery Workshop

Mapping a Ritual Chain Worksheet

Chains are made when you string together a series of compulsive rituals to use as a life management strategy. This worksheet will help you map out a ritualistic chain as taught in the Recovery Workshop.

First Name and Last Initial:

E-mail address:

Step 1: List all compulsive acts that you have engaged in over the past week.

Be sure to include behaviors outside of sex, love and/or porn addiction!

To determine if an action should be included here, see if you would be able to map it out as a compulsive chain. If you could, then it should be included.

Step 2: Regarding the compulsive acts listed above, answer the following:

a. How many hours would you estimate that you have spent engaged in these rituals total?

b. How many days in the past week have you engaged in multiple rituals?

c. How many days in the past week have you engaged in multiple, overlapping rituals (rituals that began either during other rituals or immediately following)

Step 3: Over the past year, what would you consider your primary compulsive rituals to be?

For instance, masturbation...Internet porn...fantasizing/ruminating about an affair...exercising...gambling...eating, etc.


Step 4: Considering only your primary rituals over the past month, answer the following:

a. How many hours would you estimate that you have spent engaged in these rituals total?

b. How many days in the past month have you engaged in multiple rituals?

c. How many days in the past month have you engaged in multiple, overlapping rituals? rituals that began either during other rituals or immediately following

Step 5: Note any awareness you may have regarding the frequency and/or intensity of your ritualistic performances and the stability of your life over the past year.