Rob AndersonLead Coach/ Principle Owner, Stand Sure Coaching · Spending time in collaborative conversations with clients

Journaling Your Truth: Unfiltered Authenticity #shorts

22 Sept 2026 · 2 min

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In this YouTube Short, the speaker reflects on how they have previously edited personal journal entries before sharing them publicly, realizing that such editing compromises authenticity. They describe their journal as a space for processing daily hits, struggles, gratitude, learning, and faith, often including scripture that either inspires or challenges them. Deciding to present more unedited monologues, they commit to sharing raw excerpts, including scripture, while explicitly stating they will not push or coach their beliefs onto viewers or coaching clients. The speaker emphasizes that in coaching sessions, the client’s faith and beliefs remain the client’s own, and the coach’s role is to support, not convert. The overall message is a pledge to appear fully as themselves—unfiltered, vulnerable, and respectful of others’ differing beliefs.

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Hey, nobody wants to admit this, but sometimes we edit ourselves to make other people much more comfortable. And I realized I was doing exactly that. Most of these monologues, they start out in my journal. That journal isn't just content. It's where I go and work things out. It's where I write about what hit me that day, what I'm struggling with, what I'm grateful for, what I'm learning. And sometimes what I just haven't figured out yet. You get to see it all. And woven through those pages oftentimes is my faith. There's scripture there, sometimes because it gave me an answer or gave me inspiration. Sometimes it gave me something else I have to wrestle with. So I started asking myself, why am I taking something straight out of my journal, removing one of the most personal parts of it before I share it here, because that's not authentic. So you're going to hear a little more scripture in these monologues. That doesn't mean I'm going to push my beliefs onto you, and it definitely doesn't mean I'm going to coach my beliefs onto you. When we sit down together for coaching, your faith is your faith. Your beliefs are your beliefs, and your journey is yours. My job is to coach you, not to turn you into me or to convert you. But these monologues are a little bit different. They're pieces of my journal that I've decided to say out loud. And if I'm going to invite you into that part of my life, I'm not going to hand you an edited version of myself. You may not believe what I believe, and that's, that's totally cool. That's okay. But when you hear one of these monologues, you're going to hear where it really came from, because if I'm going to show up here, I'm going to show up as the whole me.