About Liahona Pathfinders
Liahona Pathfinders exists to help people understand what has been shaping them from the inside — often quietly, often for a long time.
This work began with a simple observation: many patterns that cause distress are not the result of weakness, failure, or lack of effort. They are the result of inner systems that once formed for protection.
When those systems remain unseen, they repeat.
When they are understood, change becomes possible.
Our Approach
At Liahona Pathfinders, we focus on recognition before change.
Rather than beginning with behavior correction, productivity, or external accountability, this work looks first at the internal architecture that organizes identity, reaction, and repetition.
The Metanoia Cycles and the DEBT framework — Desires, Expectations, Beliefs, and Thoughts — provide a clear structure for understanding how inner patterns form and why they persist.
This approach is reflective, not urgent.
It does not demand action.
It does not prescribe a timeline.
What Guides This Work
The word metanoia refers to an inner turning — a reorientation toward truth and clarity rather than fear or survival.
At Liahona Pathfinders, metanoia is understood not as a dramatic event, but as a gradual process of recognition and return.
This work is faith-aware, but not coercive.
It respects agency, pacing, and personal discernment.
How People Engage
Some people engage with this work through reading alone.
Others eventually choose additional structure, conversation, or guided support.
Both approaches are valid.
Liahona Pathfinders offers books, optional membership pathways, and guided support for those who find shared reflection helpful — but nothing here is required.
Why This Exists
Liahona Pathfinders was created to offer clarity where confusion often lives, and structure where people have been told to rely on effort alone.
This is not a place of performance or pressure.
It is a place to understand before deciding what comes next.
A Note from the Founder
This work exists because understanding changed my own life when effort was not enough.
Liahona Pathfinders is offered with respect for each person’s timing, agency, and dignity.
— Gary W. Hoskins
Meet the Founder: Gary W. Hoskins
I did not come to this work as an expert who had everything figured out.
I came to it as someone who had to confront the consequences of my own actions, take responsibility for harm caused, and commit to long-term accountability, change, and service.
My life includes chapters of profound failure, loss, and reckoning — and also years of disciplined therapeutic work, spiritual formation, education, and community service. This work was born not from theory, but from the lived necessity of understanding how inner patterns form, harden, and — when honestly faced — begin to change.
I do not teach from a position of moral authority.
I work from a posture of responsibility, humility, and ongoing accountability.
Why I Created This Work
For many years, I tried to change through effort alone.
It wasn’t enough.
What ultimately made change possible was learning to understand the inner structures that shaped my behavior — not to excuse them, but to take responsibility for them at their roots.
That process led to the development of the DEBT framework — Desires, Expectations, Beliefs, and Thoughts — and later, the Metanoia Cycles, which map how inner systems move through protection, repetition, and eventual reorientation.
This work exists because understanding came before change — and without it, change did not last.
Background & Experience
My background includes experience in:
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Program design and curriculum development
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Addiction and recovery education
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Emergency response and crisis support
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Teaching, mentoring, and facilitated group learning
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Community service, search and rescue, and volunteer leadership
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Faith-based education and identity work
I hold formal education in addiction studies and have completed additional training across multiple disciplines related to service, instruction, and community safety.
I continue to work within clearly defined ethical boundaries and do not operate in isolation or unchecked authority.
Posture & Boundaries
This work is not about charisma, personality, or personal story.
It is about:
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clarity over control
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structure over intensity
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accountability over image
Liahona Pathfinders is intentionally designed to be framework-centered, not personality-centered. Support is layered, optional, and bounded.
No one is asked to trust me personally.
The work stands on its structure.
A Final Word
I believe deeply in responsibility, discernment, and the dignity of choice.
This work does not ask for belief, loyalty, or emotional allegiance.
It offers tools for understanding — and respects each person’s right to decide what comes next.
— Gary W. Hoskins
Organizations That Inspire Us
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(We are not formally affiliated with these organizations and receive no compensation for sharing them. We simply love what they do.)