KNOW YOUR HOOKS

A hook is any experience that impacts your behavior. They can be direct like stubbing your toe and reacting in anger or indirect like seeing a
social media post that reminds you of an old friend, you spend some time thinking about them and later get in touch.

What happened? Pay Attention Is that a hook? Prepare Notice your hooks

Write down a situation
where you did something
problematic. What did
you do?
Write down what private Ask yourself if that private
experiences like thoughts, experience is a hook for
feelings, memories, or you. Here’s how you can
sensations showed up for tell: did it impact your
you and triggered behavior in a problematic
problematic behavior. way? If so, write down the
name of that hook: e.g.
my anger hook, sadness
hook, etc.
The person that you want Noticing your hooks is a
to be. What would they do life skill. You don’t get to
when your hook shows choose whether you have
up? Would they bite it and hooks or not but you can
react? Engage in those choose how you respond
same behaviors? If not, to them and how you
write down what you interact with your hooks.
would choose to do
differently.