Don't Let Your Love Die on a Napkin

About this episode

The episode explores the impact of unexpressed love and connection through personal anecdotes and neuroscience.

My grandfather never once told my father he loved him. What happened at a diner over coffee — and what I found in a desk decades later — changed everything I understand about connection, silence, and the courage to go first. The neuroscience of why the unsaid is killing us, and what one folded napkin taught me about breaking the cycle.

Topics covered

• connection
• silence
• neuroscience
• love
• communication

Keywords

• love
• napkin
• courage
• cycle
• diner

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