Sonia Choquette - Waking Up in Paris: Overcoming Darkness in the City of Light

Praise for

WAKING UP IN Paris

Heartbroken Venus moves to Paris. Unflinchingly honest, entertaining, and real, Waking Up in Paris is an enlightened journey back to wholeness.

John Gray, Ph.D., #1 best-selling relationship author of all time

In the deepest sense, life is a spiritual journey. In this incredibly heartfelt book, Sonia Choquette opens the gateway for you to accompany her and her daughter on her spiritual sojourn in Paris. Part Under the Tuscan Sun, part Eat Pray Love, and part journey of the heart. Youll laugh, youll cry, and along the way youll gain valuable life lessons. And for anyone whos starting over in life, youll be inspired beyond measure. Highly recommended!

Denise Linn, best-selling author of Energy Strands

Are you going through a dark time, or do you know people who are? This lyrical, uplifting, and life-changing book is for you and them. It is not filled with do this-do that instructions that might pile on to an already daunting situation. Instead, it tells a story. An honest, Ill go first story that will make you laugh, reflect, tear up, and open up to real-life ways to transform dark into light and recreate the quality of life you want, need, and deserve. Read it and reap!

Sam Horn, author of Got Your Attention?

Never before have I come across a memoir with Paris as a spiritual teacher. Choquette expertly illustrates how when you heal internally, the external beauty is revealed. A simply wonderful read.

Janice MacLeod, New York Times best-selling author of Paris Letters and A Paris Year

Waking Up in Paris is about the ultimate pilgrimage we can dare to go on; its about the humbling and humorous process we get initiated into when we want to find true love; its about finally staying still, in order to heal, all the way back and all the way through. Its about coming home, at last, to this unlit cathedral that waits for us, in our own sacred hearts.

Meggan Watterson, author of Reveal and How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People)

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Your 3 Best Super Powers:
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CD Programs

Ask Your Guides: How to Connect
with Your Spiritual Support System
(6-CD and 4-CD sets)

Attunement to Higher Vibrational
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(4-CD set)

How to Trust Your Vibes at
Work, and Let Them Work for You
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Meditations for Receiving Divine
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All of the above are available at your local
bookstore, or may be ordered by visiting:

Hay House USA: www.hayhouse.com
Hay House Australia: www.hayhouse.com.au
Hay House UK: www.hayhouse.co.uk
Hay House India: www.hayhouse.co.in

Copyright 2018 by Sonia Choquette

Published and distributed in the United States by: Hay House, Inc.: www.hayhouse.com Published and distributed in Australia by: Hay House Australia Pty. Ltd.: www.hayhouse.com.au Published and distributed in the United Kingdom by: Hay House UK, Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.uk Distributed in Canada by: Raincoast Books: www.raincoast.com Published in India by: Hay House Publishers India: www.hayhouse.co.in

Cover design: Jenny Johnson Interior design: Pamela Homan

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private useother than for fair use as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviewswithout prior written permission of the publisher.

The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

To protect the privacy of others, certain names and details have been changed.

Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4019-4446-9

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
1st edition, April 2018

Printed in the United States of America

I would like to dedicate this book to my
two beautiful daughters, Sonia and Sabrina
Choquette-Tully, who both stood by me in my hour
of darkness and walked with me back into the light.
I am so blessed to have you two gorgeous spirits as
my closest soul companions and sweetest friends in
life. And to the beautiful spirit that is Paris: You
woke me up to the deepest beauty in my soul
and helped me embrace the beauty in
all things and all experiences.

As a spiritual teacher and intuitive guide for the majority of my life, I have observed that most people are initially attracted to spiritualitywhether to meditation, awakening intuition, or connecting to higher awarenessbecause they feel these practices will provide them with the strength to confront lifes inevitable challenges and disappointments. They often hope that spirituality will serve as a cloak of invulnerability that will protect them against psychic pain.

In fact, the real benefit of spiritual awakening is that it allows us to embrace our vulnerability, to begin to disarm, to un-shield our sensitive hearts, and to boldly face and fully embrace everything that arises in life with arms wide-open. It is this stripping away of our ego defenses that allows for authentic connection to occur, first with ourselves, then with others.