The Internet is full of coaches advertising their services to help you find your ‘authentic self’ (maybe it’s just under the couch), or to ‘unlock its power’ (sounds risky, why was it imprisoned in the first place?). In this episode, we look at where this notion of an ‘authentic self’ came from, and why it actually fits more within a religious framework than a scientific one. As coaches, we also look at how we’d approach this Cartesian dilemma in our own practice.