Last week I attended a lecture with Dr Jeffrey DeMarco, a leading expert in intergenerational trauma. His work is both fascinating and unsettling — not because it’s dramatic, but because it explains so much of what so many of us quietly live with every day. One of the studies he referenced is one I’ve spoken about before, but it hits differently every time. Researchers exposed mice to the scent of cherry blossoms. Each time the scent was released, the mice received a small el