The Start of Something New
I wandered the wilderness, chasing answers in every direction but the one that mattered – God.
What if a brand could hold every part of me – my faith, my fiction, motherhood, wifehood, & my mindset work?
I thought I found the answers. But I was looking outside of God—and outside of myself—for validation.
As a Cradle Catholic who fled her faith, I found myself drawn to the glittering promises of the New Age spirituality and occult ideology. I thought I understood the faith I was born into, that it simply wasn’t meant for me, that as a woman, I would be better served by the Spiritual Community, and so, for many (many) years, I delved deeply into the New Age/Spirituality scene. Thinking I could and would find what I needed there. I know my audience has heard the term ‘Chasing the Dragon’. That is the trap of the Occult, which I will dive into in my new podcast. And know if you are in that space, I see you. I hold no judgment for the person I was. The thoughts and feelings that swirled around me at the time. I view it all as the path I was meant to take. Grace meets us wherever we are.
I will also bring you into my healing journey from there, when my patron Saint, St. Teresa of Avila, began whispering to me, and how, while yes,
I did hear her; however, it was still from within the static of New Age filters. And yet, she persisted. Grace has the power to break through even the most dazzling of the New Age ‘promises’.
I spent much of the past ten years bouncing between my writer persona and my inspirational/mindset persona, and then for the last three years basically doing nothing at all because I couldn’t reconcile the two. Then, it seemed even more complicated once I went back home to the Church.
I am a beloved daughter of God. A wife. A mother. A writer. But I’m also certified in NLP and CBT, and I dabble in neuroplasticity. I froze, believing I had to abandon the tools I’d been trained in, because they’d been tangled in the New Age ideology (manifestation, anyone??).
God doesn’t waste anything. He redeems. And now, I use these tools through a lens of truth, discernment, and faith.
If you’ve trained in mindset work, therapy, or coaching, don’t toss it.
Reclaim it, Redeem it!
The bifurcation of my life – Writer vs. Mindset Coach felt wrong. Would I continue to keep them separate?
I was standing too close to my own problem. I couldn’t see the forest for the trees. I was lacking perspective so hard I froze. I cocooned for a long time, which I explain in the first of the three podcasts dropping on October 1, 2025, so I won’t go into too much detail yet. I’ll save that for the first episode and the blog scheduled to drop the same day as my re-launch.
What if my brand could hold every part of me?
We are none of us one-dimensional.
This is the signal – the transition – I’ll be combining all my mindset work under Vicki Glass with my V. M. DarkAngelo author socials, reflecting this new, integrated brand. The old content will stay; nothing gets scrubbed. My journey lay bare back to the beginning as I embark on a new future.
This is a place for the in-between, for the frozen, for the faithful, and for those still figuring it out. Subscribe and walk with me.
To help you begin your own unfreezing, I’ve created a free devotional-meets-mindset guide: Unfreeze & Reframe. Download it and walk this journey with me.
~Next week, I’ll share what the cocoon taught me and how silence became sacred.