About this episode

This episode explores ancestral healing and the Regeneration Process with Dr. Ame Cutler, focusing on the legacies of harm passed through generations.

What does healing the legacies of harm passed from one generation to the next look like? That is the topic of this week's episode with my guest, and one of my teachers, Dr. Ame Cutler. Ame is a transdisciplinary trauma theorist, regenerative strategist, and spiritual practitioner who refuses to separate healing from history—or transformation from accountability. Ame created the Regeneration Process and she's the founder of the Transgenerational Regeneration Institute, a community-based platform for dismantling inherited systems of harm and restoring Ancestral, ecological, and relational integrity. With a PhD in Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology, Dr. Cutler’s academic and practical work interrogates the cultural and psychological impacts of colonization, white supremacy, transgenerational trauma, and systemic oppression. Her scholarship is not theoretical—it’s embodied. Born into a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant lineage shaped by overwork, erasure, and inherited privilege, she has spent her life reclaiming what capitalism, Christianity, and settler logic tried to strip away: belonging, integrity, and Ancestral responsibility. Dr. Cutler specializes in the legacies of harm…

People in this episode

Host: Laura Reagan

Guest: Dr. Ame Cutler

Topics covered

• ancestral healing
• transgenerational trauma
• systemic oppression
• cultural impacts
• psychological impacts
• healing legacies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Transgenerational Regeneration Institute

Books & works: Regeneration Process

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