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I Need to Trust What I Know

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I Need to Trust What I Know

The door was the hard part. Inside: three readings to start with, one ritual that takes five minutes, and tools built to hold what you already know.

Start Here
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You call it overthinking.
Maybe second-guessing.
It is usually a knowing that arrived early and got outvoted.

This door is for the woman who felt it in the room before anything happened. Who said “I knew it” quietly, afterward, again. Somewhere along the way, being right became dangerous, so you learned to argue with your own gut and call it being reasonable.

Your instrument is not broken. It was overruled. Different problem. Different tools.

Three Readings to Start with

Powerful Intuitive Rituals to Uncover Your Strengths and Virtues. Your knowing speaks in symbols. This is the field guide: tea leaves, pendulums, body signals, and rituals that give the quiet voice something other than words to work with.

How Your Subconscious Speaks Your Truth Through Art. Every doodle is testimony. How to read the shapes, colors, and repeating symbols your deeper mind uses when it gives up on being heard politely.

Your Inner Healer Has an Important Message for You. A short guided art exercise for meeting the part of you that already knows what needs mending. Quiet, simple, and no art skill required.

Try This

One prompt. No setup.

Take a piece of paper. At the top write: “I knew.”

List every time the feeling was right. The friend. The job. The room you wanted to leave. Do not explain the items. Do not argue with them.

When the list stops, count. Your instrument works. It always did.

Keep the list somewhere you will see it the next time you start talking yourself out of the same feeling.

Tools to Hold What You Already Know

For the knowing that needs a witness: A You-Do-You Voodoo™ doll built around an intuition intention has one job: holding what you know while you practice believing it. She does not doubt you. That is the point of her.

Example of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher doll held in a woman's hand. She has a black messy bun, colorful double-layered top and a jute ribbon skirt.
Watcher art doll with moonstone head, a cameo at her throat, open jacket and blue and beaded decorations in her black hair.
The back view of Roberta the Watcher art doll, showing her bow and headband.
A Watcher art doll standing on a book in front of a book. She's about 7 inches tall, twine ribbon skirt, black messy hair.
Comparison of a typical Watcher art doll to a woman's hand.
Absynthe is an example of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher. She wears a pink dress with a light pink flouncy slip. Her hair is fuzzy and 1/2 pulled back with decorative copper swirls.
This is the back view of Absynthe the You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher doll. You can see the barrettes and copper decorations in her hair and her pink dress.
Part of the creation process of the Watcher art doll, Absynthe.
A graphic showing Absynthe, a Watcher art doll, having some creative problems that turn out well.
You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher showing a close up of her clear quartz crystal head/face and intricately styled hair.
You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll in a multicolored sarong with black hair standing in front of a pink textured background
A You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll dressed in a pink top, furry skirt, and jewelry. Her black, pink and brown hair is intricately braided. She's standing by a decorative pitcher.
Detail of a Watcher's hair
The front view of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll dressed in a pink top, long, furry skirt, petticoats and jewelry. Her black, pink and brown hair is intricately braided.
The back view of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll with black, pink and brown hair braided in an updo.
The front view of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll that reminds me of my grandma. She has curly gray and silver hair, a pink multi-layered dress, and colorful underskirt.
A You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll with curly gray and silver hair, held in a woman's hand.
Goddess-shaped Watcher art doll in the beginning stages of creation. Quotes pertaining to love and loving yourself written on cloth are beside her and they will be wrapped inside her.
You-Do-You Voodoo™ and SoulStitch™ art dolls placed beside a ruler showing their sizes compared. 6 inch, 9 inch and 12 inch dolls.
  • Example of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher doll held in a woman's hand. She has a black messy bun, colorful double-layered top and a jute ribbon skirt.
  • Watcher art doll with moonstone head, a cameo at her throat, open jacket and blue and beaded decorations in her black hair.
  • The back view of Roberta the Watcher art doll, showing her bow and headband.
  • A Watcher art doll standing on a book in front of a book. She's about 7 inches tall, twine ribbon skirt, black messy hair.
  • Comparison of a typical Watcher art doll to a woman's hand.
  • Absynthe is an example of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher. She wears a pink dress with a light pink flouncy slip. Her hair is fuzzy and 1/2 pulled back with decorative copper swirls.
  • This is the back view of Absynthe the You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher doll. You can see the barrettes and copper decorations in her hair and her pink dress.
  • Part of the creation process of the Watcher art doll, Absynthe.
  • A graphic showing Absynthe, a Watcher art doll, having some creative problems that turn out well.
  • You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher showing a close up of her clear quartz crystal head/face and intricately styled hair.
  • You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll in a multicolored sarong with black hair standing in front of a pink textured background
  • A You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll dressed in a pink top, furry skirt, and jewelry. Her black, pink and brown hair is intricately braided. She's standing by a decorative pitcher.
  • Detail of a Watcher's hair
  • The front view of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll dressed in a pink top, long, furry skirt, petticoats and jewelry. Her black, pink and brown hair is intricately braided.
  • The back view of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll with black, pink and brown hair braided in an updo.
  • The front view of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll that reminds me of my grandma. She has curly gray and silver hair, a pink multi-layered dress, and colorful underskirt.
  • A You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll with curly gray and silver hair, held in a woman's hand.
  • Goddess-shaped Watcher art doll in the beginning stages of creation. Quotes pertaining to love and loving yourself written on cloth are beside her and they will be wrapped inside her.
  • You-Do-You Voodoo™ and SoulStitch™ art dolls placed beside a ruler showing their sizes compared. 6 inch, 9 inch and 12 inch dolls.
Example of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher doll held in a woman's hand. She has a black messy bun, colorful double-layered top and a jute ribbon skirt.Watcher art doll with moonstone head, a cameo at her throat, open jacket and blue and beaded decorations in her black hair.The back view of Roberta the Watcher art doll, showing her bow and headband.A Watcher art doll standing on a book in front of a book. She's about 7 inches tall, twine ribbon skirt, black messy hair.Comparison of a typical Watcher art doll to a woman's hand.Absynthe is an example of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher. She wears a pink dress with a light pink flouncy slip. Her hair is fuzzy and 1/2 pulled back with decorative copper swirls.This is the back view of Absynthe the You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher doll. You can see the barrettes and copper decorations in her hair and her pink dress.Part of the creation process of the Watcher art doll, Absynthe.A graphic showing Absynthe, a Watcher art doll, having some creative problems that turn out well.You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher showing a close up of her clear quartz crystal head/face and intricately styled hair.You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll in a multicolored sarong with black hair standing in front of a pink textured backgroundA You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll dressed in a pink top, furry skirt, and jewelry. Her black, pink and brown hair is intricately braided. She's standing by a decorative pitcher.Detail of a Watcher's hairThe front view of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll dressed in a pink top, long, furry skirt, petticoats and jewelry. Her black, pink and brown hair is intricately braided.The back view of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll with black, pink and brown hair braided in an updo.The front view of a You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll that reminds me of my grandma. She has curly gray and silver hair, a pink multi-layered dress, and colorful underskirt.A You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher art doll with curly gray and silver hair, held in a woman's hand.Goddess-shaped Watcher art doll in the beginning stages of creation. Quotes pertaining to love and loving yourself written on cloth are beside her and they will be wrapped inside her.You-Do-You Voodoo™ and SoulStitch™ art dolls placed beside a ruler showing their sizes compared. 6 inch, 9 inch and 12 inch dolls.

You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher Art Doll (6-8 inches)

$119.00 +tax with free shipping

She does not judge. She watches.

The You-Do-You Voodoo™ Watcher stands where your Innocent went quiet, holding the line when your own resolve wavers. Choose her gemstone: amethyst to steady, clear quartz to focus, rose quartz to mend. Each stone sets her core, and her core becomes yours.

She will not let you forget who you are becoming. She keeps the vigil you cannot keep for yourself. She waits at the threshold, patient, exact, unwilling to look away.

Nine inches of yarn and stone, built to remember what you keep almost forgetting.

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For rebuilding the case for your own judgment: The Art of Confidence: A Guide to Trusting Yourself on Life’s Creative Battlefield is the working companion for this door. One small proof at a time, it moves trust from something you perform to something you have.

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This door opens into the Intuition & Awareness theme: the full shelf of posts, symbols, and tools for a clearer relationship with your inner knowing.

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