Before the expectations. Before the corrections. Before you learned which parts of yourself were acceptable and which ones needed to be managed, there was a version of you that was simply, completely, yourself. This episode is about that person, and what it means to find your way back.

In this first episode of The Original Self Podcast, life coach, creator of DeCota Life Coaching, and psychology-informed thinker, Evet DeCota, explores one of the most quietly urgent questions a person can ask: who were you before the world told you who to be? Drawing on decades of listening to real people in unguarded moments, her own journey through loss, reinvention, and the slow work of coming back to herself, and the psychology of Donald Winnicott's concept of the True Self, Evet walks through the forces that shape us away from our original selves and wh ...