MindLove Movement is an organization that aims to provide a safe place for individuals with mental health challenges. We seek to create a culture of trust and compassion, one that is forgiving and welcomes openness; and we believe that only when someone has the strength to open up and be free will a safe space serve its true purpose. Fostering safe space provides a sense of reliability, a sense of companionship that someone will be there, always rooting for you. MindLove hopes to extend a helping hand, a listening ear or even a life line to people who’ll be needing help and support. In MindLove you can be yourself, in your ups and downs we will journey with you. MindLove serves as a platform for you to discover your truest self and unleash your fullest potential to be stronger, braver and wiser. Everyone can come and be heard. It is our deepest desire to walk with you, journey with you and do life with you. Together, let us create an inclusive culture where care groups makes everyone feel welcomed and embraced as a brother and sister who truly belongs. And one week after MindLove Movement’s online launch and we still find ourselves on some spiritual high! Follow our socials for more updates on care group fellowships and on how we can journey with you better! If you weren’t able to catch that last Saturday, you can still watch the entire thing on MindLove Movement’s Facebook Page or you can now stream it on 4 AM with Paula Salvosa on Anchor, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Ergo, Season 2 of 4 AM with Paula Salvosa has already come to an end! But don’t worry because the 4AMWPS team will be brewing more interesting topics about mental health and the Christian faith, Theology and Psychology, healing and recovery. See you in Season 3 commencing on July 3rd, Saturday at 8pm! Until then, peachykins! Peace and love! MindLove Movement: Facebook @mindlovemovement Twitter @mindlovemvmnt Instagram @mindlovemovement UNIFY Worship: Facebook @unifyworshipph Twitter @unifyworshipph Instagram @unifyworshipph

Is mental illness a sin? Or is it demonic possession? How do we reconcile the tension between psychology and spirituality when it comes to mental illness? What is the church’s role in caring for people with mental health struggles? How can we educate the church, Christians in caring for and journeying with people with mental health struggles? Philip Arandia, a spoken word artist, an assessment specialist, supervised psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and a pastor, joins me in this week’s episode and answers the toughest questions concerning mental health, Psychology and our Christian faith. One of my besties graced 4 AM with Paula Salvosa with his presence and it has been the best episode to date! Stream it now on Anchor, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Apple Podcasts! Spread the word! Peace and love!

As I’ve already turned 33, I’m sharing my Bipolar journey as a form of gift to the world.

For the second season’s pilot episode, I interviewed our administration’s head at MindLove Movement, Ella Pineda. In this episode, she shared with us her journey to healing as someone who was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Bipolar 2 Disorder. Let’s learn from her and pick up some gleanings that we can also apply in our lives and in the lives of those people that we care about.

Christians often struggle with the understanding whether mental illness is spiritual or its biological. Does it have some basis with the background that we have? The answer is yes. Because God has made us multi-part beings. He’s made us physical and immaterial or non-physical. So we really do need to understand that God’s provision for us is things like medication and psychotherapy and individuals who understand that. But He has also provided the church that can provide supportive care for, that can walk along with us, that can care for us, that can be those burden-bearers to help us with our physical need, with our spiritual needs and our psychological needs. So when we interact with an individual we have to think of them holistically. We have to look at mental illness from both a biblical and a psychological perspective if an individual’s going to be able to have complete and full recovery.

You’d think that after all God had done, Jezebel’s threat would have meant absolutely nothing to Elijah…but it did. He was wasted. The entire run had left Elijah emotionally spent, spiritually exhausted. He’d run as hard as he could, and he couldn’t run anymore. His life, work, ministry, effort, responsibilities, duties, deadlines and demands, had left him completely busted. So this is how he responded: “Elijah was afraid and ran for his life… He came to a broom tree, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. ‘I have had enough, Lord,’ he said. ‘Take my life’…Then he lay down under the tree and fell asleep” (1 Kings 19:3-5). So what did God do? How did God react to that moment?

Lingering or unrelenting mental health concerns should not be a matter of shame or cause a Christian to doubt their salvation. Our bodies and minds, like the rest of creation, are groaning to be made whole (Romans 8:22).

In this episode, we’ll talk about how bad theology hurts the anxious, depressed and suicidal. Ergo, the “have more faith” theology dangerously compounds biopsychosocial anxiety with spiritual anxiety, without sufficiently addressing either.

In the first season of 4 AM with Paula Salvosa, we will talk about a brief theology of mental health to help us understand what the Bible says about it and discover what role the church has to play in caring for people with mental health needs and challenges.

Hi! Welcome to 4 AM with Paula Salvosa where we ride on a roller coaster that will never unbuckle and we journey together in this whole conundrum called life!