If you've done the work and you're still stuck, the work was the problem.
What if genuine transformation requires no effort — only honest observation?
David L. Hoefer offers a clinically grounded yet accessible framework for healing inherited trauma patterns through the practice of impartial self-observation. Drawing on decades of watching his own evolution and that of others, Hoefer presents seven principles — not rules to follow, but descriptions of how transformation actually works.
Impartial self-observation is not merely a practice. It is a way of being that naturally dissolves conditioning and allows your authentic self to emerge.
David L. Hoefer
David L. Hoefer, a Colorado-based psychotherapist and the founder of Discover the Self Press, facilitates online sharing groups. During his earlier years, he counseled at the VA’s Substance Use Clinic. The Inner Space Traveler grew directly from his own experience when conventional approaches to healing failed him.
He now shares this journey, struggle and transformation through his writing, speaking, and online Sharing Groups.
Sharing Groups
Want to learn more, do more, and experience more? David facilitates free online sharing groups for connection with others traveling this transformational journey. Click here to get the details and sign up to receive schedules and options.
The Inner Space Traveler
7 Principles for Healing Trauma and Transforming Consciousness
6 × 9 inches · 348 pages
Print: $21.95 · ISBN 979-8-9859184-3-4
Ebook: $7.99 · ISBN 979-8-9859184-4-1
Unlike conventional self-help, The Inner Space Traveler asks nothing of you except presence and honesty. No belief system to adopt. No technique to master. Just the radical act of watching yourself clearly, adding nothing but awareness — and allowing the organic change that follows.
If you’ve done the programs, read the books, and kept the resolutions only to find yourself unchanged, Hoefer offers a different explanation. The problem was never discipline. It was the trying — the effort that quietly strengthens what it aims to undo.
For anyone who senses that trying harder isn’t the answer — and for readers of Eckhart Tolle, Bessel van der Kolk, and Pema Chödrön.
“An intriguing and laid-back framework for allowing yourself to improve... steadily avoids the soft-focus preachiness that so often mars titles like this.”
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