How To Have a Brutally Honest Conversation With Anyone and Stop Sugar Coating Your Truth

Conscious Commentary
5 min readJun 16, 2022

In these early 20s, it’s much easier thought of than done.

Photo by Mimi Thian on Unsplash

A brutally honest conversation these days can either be positive or turn south quickly.

This flavor of honesty is often seen as “too honest,” so we don’t practice it much.

Because censorship, cancel culture, and politically correct workplaces are part of our realities.

Sugar coating has its place and tastes sweet, but sometimes watered-down truth doesn’t feel OK in the gut.

And it’s your second brain, by the way.

Honesty is one of my values.

It could be because I’m a Sagittarius whose epitome of past trauma surrounds expressing my truth. I learned to filter my natural bluntness to make others comfortable around me early.

Or it could be because I’ve been involved with so many narcissists that couldn’t handle the honesty I desired to cultivate within our relationship.

Thankfully children are the most brutally honest beings on Earth and always give me a good laugh from their straight-up way of speaking.

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