Sonia Choquette on Trusting Your Vibes

The first movie Sonia Choquette saw as a child was Mary Poppins, which taught the third-generation intuitive that magic didn’t just happen in her house. Choquette has spent more than four decades traveling the world to instruct people to develop and trust their intuition, a skill her mother encouraged. Her teachings are inspired by her belief that we are all intuitive and that recognizing and relying on our innate inner guidance system is vital. The author of 27 books, including the 2009 bestseller The Answer Is Simple, Choquette pursued religious studies at the University of Denver, followed by the Sorbonne in Paris. Here, she talks with contributing editor Karen Brailsford from her home in London (she also lives in Paris) about why intuition hasn’t always been taken seriously and why it’s more relevant than ever.

Karen Brailsford: I’ve noticed that you like to wear vibrant colors. Perhaps that’s why Spirit guided me to wear this hot pink sweater.

Sonia Choquette: We’re having a beautiful congruent vibration. Do you have fashion angels?

KB: Yes!

SC: So do I. My mother, a gifted seamstress, always told me that we dress the Holy Spirit—the divine force that gives us life. To revere the spirit within, we should dress it well. That’s a very personal choice, but for me it means bright colors. It just lifts my mood. I have fashion angels and shopping angels. My mom had sewing angels and fabric angels.

KB: Are angels really that specialized?

SC: Yes. We are spiritual beings having an energetically sensed, embodied experience, and our angels want us to have the best. They are ready to help us with everything in life. When we ask for their help, especially with the intention of living in the highest way, they respond.

KB: In your work you talk about “woo-woo wisdom.” Can you elaborate?

SC: “Woo-woo” was considered a derogatory term for much of my life. When people called me that, they were implying I wasn’t realistic, that valuing the unseen world was irrational. In the Age of Reason, particularly in 17th-century France with thinkers like Descartes, the prevailing view was that only the physical, logical, and measurable were real. Anything spiritual or energetic was dismissed as superstition. But now quantum physics affirms we are more energy than matter. What was once mocked as “woo-woo” is actually our truest reality.

KB: Tell me about your family background.

SC: My mother was born in Romania and as a child during World War II, she was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp where she lost her hearing. She later escaped, came to America, and created a beautiful life by listening to her spirit. She often said her survival, her marriage, and her seven children came from trusting her heart over fear and outside projections.

Because I was the middle child of seven and wanted my mother’s attention, I became really good at listening to my spirit—and I could see things. By the time I was 12, I was doing readings for adults. I realized that not listening to your vibes is the worst handicap of all. You could lose your hearing (as my mother had), your eyesight, a limb, or your sense of smell, but if you lost your inner compass, you were really in trouble. I decided then that I would teach people. It was a calling. After more than 60 years of living this way, I can say with certainty that it is the only way to live.

KB: Can everyone learn to hear that inner voice?

SC: Absolutely. Each of us has what I call a “core authentic home frequency,” our unique and authentic vibration, the pure expression of our spirit. It constantly communicates with us through subtle energy—not words—to keep us authentic, congruent, aligned, safe, supported, uplifted, and connected. We receive it through our biology and through inner vision. It’s sensing an inner conversation. We receive it through our hands, through our skin, in our gut. Go here. Do this. Stay back. Don’t go. Just as whales use sonar or birds navigate magnetically, we humans use vibes. It boils down to this: We have a spirit that talks to us through vibration. So trust your vibes.

KB: The word that comes up for me is discernment.

SC: That is exactly it. When I grew up, we didn’t have cell phones and computers. Today we have to fight all of this intrusion—outer world noise, external authority and influence—that pulls us away from our authentic self. We have to discern energetically, Does this lift me up? Does this feel congruent or dissonant, supportive or not supportive? If you want to become more discerning, choose behaviors that support that decision: Regulate your breath, quiet the mind, root yourself in the body, and avoid excess stimulation. As you do, your intuition becomes undeniably clear, reliable, and valuable. The reason people don’t listen to their vibes is because they don’t have the language. Intuition is the language of energy.

KB: How can we language vibes?

SC: Intuition communicates like music. A melody can move you without words, and vibes do the same. You feel them in your heart, your gut, even the hairs on your skin. These are energetic communications. The more attentive and present you are, the more fluent you become in this language of energy. I’ve traveled to just about every continent. No matter the culture or the country, when I ask, “Where does your spirit live?” everybody’s hand goes to their heart.      

Nobody has ever pointed to their head, and very few have said, “I don’t know.” There’s a language that we share. When you say, “I have a gut feeling” or “I can read the room,” people know what you mean. When you say, “That doesn’t feel right,” nobody’s going to say, “You’re nuts.” They’ll make room for that.

“True authority is not external—it is the quiet, unwavering voice of your own spirit. The word authenticity comes from the same root as authority, and to me that is no accident. When you live authentically, you live under the authority of your spirit.”

KB: Why is this especially important now?

SC: The world is shifting. Within the last five years, people, especially younger people, have become far more conscious because our world has become unpredictable. This moment is a catalyst for your intuition to start working, just like it was for my mom during World War II. What sharpened her intuition was crisis. We’re in the same boat.

Covid, global warming, extreme political landscapes, and job unpredictability have turned up our natural senses to high. What’s exciting for me is seeing more and more people acknowledge these spontaneous, intuitive, energetic awakenings. It’s becoming part of the zeitgeist.

KB: A few years ago, your publisher, Hay House, updated and reissued Trust Your Vibes. What was behind that?

SC: Trust Your Vibes first came out in 2004, before all the chaos broke out. I saw the consciousness of the planet had changed a lot in that time, and I asked Hay House if I could rewrite the book to address more current conditions. Covid threw the whole planet into chaos, but it also turned everybody’s intuition back on a little. So we put a revised version out in 2022. It’s an evolving conversation and an evolving understanding. That’s why I then wrote Read Life Accurately: Recognize and Respond to What’s Really Happening.

KB: Your books provide practical daily activities and exercises.

SC: In order for someone to trust their vibes, they need to experience the truth of their intuition quickly and clearly. That’s why I give tools that are simple and realistic. Because intuition is natural, it doesn’t require effort so much as it requires attention. A little bit of focus, a moment to get back into your body, and a willingness to value what you energetically sense—that is enough. When people do this, they immediately discover that their inner guidance is already present, already reliable, and already theirs.

People want connection. By human nature, we need to bond, and our first bonding is with our divine nature. But that got interrupted, so we bonded with our ego instead. The ego is really a huge ball of everybody’s opinions mushed together. Your ego isn’t even yours. It’s an adaptable element you use to survive. If someone has authority, you start to think, Who do I have to shapeshift into for you?

KB: How did the bonding with our divine nature get interrupted?

SC: During the Enlightenment, people turned away from corrupt religion, and in doing so, many also turned away from Spirit. For centuries, society trained us to doubt ourselves and hand authority to outside systems. Those who trusted their own spirit were often judged harshly. Fortunately, this is changing. Intuition is increasingly recognized as natural and essential. Intuition is not mystical. It is human.

KB: You have experienced this kind of harsh judgment firsthand.

SC: When my first books were published, I was invited to speak at a bookstore in South Bend, Indiana. Six men walked in and started calling me a witch. I thought, Are you kidding me? It was scary. I have a degree in religious studies and I have studied the master teachers. They all talk about inner guidance. So I would meet that bias, which was mostly superstition, with Bible quotes. The first commandment is not to have false gods. Listen to what’s inside instead of what’s outside. Your intuitive sense is common sense.

KB: Is this the same as the sixth sense? 

SC: It’s evolved. I think the sixth sense is actually a whole constellation of inner senses that are really quite elegant: clairsentience, clairvoyance, clairaudience, prophetic knowing. Science has discovered that every cell in your body is a conscious responder. I understand that we have as many inner senses as we have outer senses—if not more. The outer senses are the gateway to the inner senses. Our inner senses borrow our physical senses to communicate. Some of us get a vision. Some of us get a feeling. Some of us hear an inner voice. Some of us just know. I don’t want people to think it’s one-size-fits-all. However your inner sense communicates with you is legitimately how your inner sense communicates.

Some may wonder, How do you know it’s your inner sense and you’re not just making it up? Your inner guidance, which keeps you aligned with your true self, is very quiet and consistent. Your ego-brain says, Do this! Your spirit will gently respond: No, that’s not for you. Your intuition will leave your body relaxed, while your ego and emotions leave your body agitated. It’s a very consistent signature, and it’s really a good one to refer to.

KB: What inner senses do you possess?

SC: My strongest sense is clairsentience—I am always scanning and feeling energy. I also have strong clairaudience; every book I’ve written has come through that channel. Prophetic knowing comes naturally, while clairvoyance is weaker. For me, guidance arrives like an inner GPS: Stop. Turn. Go back. It’s clear, immediate, and trustworthy. I don’t overthink it—I simply follow. From a young age, I understood that my ego was not the leader; my spirit was. That awareness has allowed me to stay receptive, flexible, and in a constant state of listening.

I tell this story in Trust Your Vibes about when I was married and we were looking for our first house. I found a great one. I talked my then husband into buying it, and I talked the realtor into convincing the sellers to let us buy it. But then I woke up one morning and I just knew, We can’t buy that house. My husband was furious. The realtor was mad at me and asked, “What am I going to tell the buyers?”

“Tell them I’m psychic,” I said. “They’ll think I’m nuts, and they’ll leave me alone!” Which is exactly what happened. We didn’t buy the house. Just weeks after we would have closed, it rained in Chicago for over a month. That house was on the Chicago River, and it flooded. Had we owned it, it would have destroyed us financially.

KB: Was there ever a time when you didn’t trust your vibes?

SC: No, it’s so physically uncomfortable I become agitated. Now I can give you 10,000 examples of taking a lot of grief for trusting my vibes, but I’ll still go for that over ignoring them. Ignoring them would be like walking into traffic with my eyes closed. My inner guidance has never failed me. It is my most reliable compass and the constant thread of my life.

KB: So it’s a matter of standing in one’s spiritual authority.

SC: Exactly. True authority is not external—it is the quiet, unwavering voice of your own spirit. The word authenticity comes from the same root as authority, and to me that is no accident. When you live authentically, you live under the authority of your spirit. This is what the first commandment means to me: Do not place false gods before the truth within. Don’t surrender your power to external voices, systems, or pressures. Listen inwardly. Spirit speaks not in fear or agitation, but in steadiness, clarity, and peace. Life is constantly changing moment to moment. It takes courage to release control and follow the subtle guidance of your inner compass. But when you do, you discover that living in alignment with your spirit is not only empowering, it is also the most liberating, graceful, and trustworthy way to live.

KB: How can trusting your vibes help people in today’s political climate?

SC: Trusting your vibes aligns you with a higher frequency—the frequency of Spirit. Ego always separates. It insists on me versus you, right versus wrong. Spirit, on the other hand, connects. It recognizes that we are both Spirit, each on our own journey. When you trust your vibes, you move out of fear and reaction and into clarity and compassion. You can discern what is truly aligned for you without being pulled into conflict or judgment. Intuition doesn’t inflame division; it dissolves it. It gives you the calm strength to say, “This isn’t for me,” without needing to condemn or attack another.

KB: If you weren’t doing this work, what would you do?

SC: I honestly can’t imagine doing anything else. I am on a mission from God to put this inner power back into people’s hearts and to normalize it. I want to get this message out because it’s the peacemaker and the problem-solver.

But if I lived parallel lives, I’d be a comedian, a professional dancer, a karaoke fanatic, a screenwriter, a world traveler, and a lounge singer. I’m sure I’ve been all of these before in past lives, and I still carry the joy of them with me. And one more—I’d be a detective. Being intuitive and being a detective are remarkably similar. I think I’d be very good at it!

Sonia Choquette is an author, international speaker, performer, intuitive consultant, and transformational visionary guide. Her books—which cover intuitive awakening, personal growth, creativity, and transformational leadership—have been published in more than 40 countries and translated into 37 languages. She hosts a weekly podcast with her two daughters called It’s All Related. Visit soniachoquette.net.

This article appeared in the March/April 2026 issue of Spirituality & Health: A Unity Publication^®. Subscribe now.