The Medicine of Remembering
I am here to help you come home to all of yourself.
I was trained at Johns Hopkins to look at the body and name what is wrong with it.
I was raised by a Senegalese poet and diplomat to look at a person and ask what they are carrying.
Everything I have made since — the surgeries and the novels, the clinic and the academy, the songs and the journeys — lives in the distance between those two sentences, and in the long work of closing it.
The work is medicine. The work is also memory, lineage, language, and the part of a woman that no lab can measure.
You are welcome to all of it. And in the end, I hope to have convinced you that the most powerful medicine available to us is the medicine of remembering who you are.
— Dr. Holda
There are questions medicine cannot answer alone.
The body. The stories we inherit. The unseen. Womanhood. Africa. Consciousness. Healing. Identity. And the strange, beautiful work of becoming ourselves.
READ
Books, and the essays between them
AFRICA
consciousness work and building
WATCH
Films, Youtube and conversations.
AGE WELL WITH ME
Physician-led care through menopause and beyond. By application
LISTEN
Music, as Aya
ABOUT
about Dr. Holda
JOURNEYS
Remember who you are
FEATURED WORK
​VOICES OF THE NEW EARTH
Essays on medicine, consciousness, history and identity.
Essays on medicine, consciousness, history and identity.
Essays on medicine, consciousness, history and identity.
Essays on medicine, consciousness, history and identity.
​Conversations with visionaries who are remembering what humanity has lost and building what comes next.
THE LAST DAHOMEY WARRIOR
Available now.
THE LIBRARY
Over the years, I have created books, essays, conversations, films,
teachings, music and journeys around questions that continue to follow me.
Explore the work according to what you are seeking.
BODY
AFRICA
BECOMING
WOMAN
CONSCIOUSNESS
THE NEW EARTH
SPIRIT
HEALING
ANCESTORS
IDENTITY
LETTERS FROM THE LIBRARY
Occasionally, I send a letter. Something I have written. Something I have made. Something I am reading. Or simply something I cannot stop thinking about.
You are welcome to receive them.