Christina Tesoro, Author at Autostraddle

Christina Tesoro

Articles written: 27

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About Christina Tesoro

Christina Tesoro is a New York City-based writer, sex educator, and therapist. In her spare time she loves to read tarot cards, lift heavy objects, and go on long walks with her dog. She is determined to learn how to do a split.

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Health + Athletics

Choose Your Own (Therapy) Adventure: The Relational Therapies

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Health + Athletics

Choose Your Own (Therapy) Adventure: The Creative/Expressive Therapies

Health + Athletics

Choose Your Own (Therapy) Adventure: Somatic and Movement Therapies

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Health + Athletics

Choose Your Own Therapy Adventure: The Trauma Therapies

Health + Athletics

Choose Your Own Therapy Adventure: The Alphabet Soup Therapies CBT, DBT and ACT

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Society + Culture

Can You Scroll Your Way to Self-Healing? Navigating Social Media Therapy Influencers and Mental Health

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Society + Culture

Unlearning Stigma This Bi+ Week

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Here’s Your Roadmap to Finding Your Authentic Sexual Self

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Advice

You Need Help: How Do I Become the Protagonist of My Own Life?

Health + Athletics

Some of Your Biggest Questions About Managing Mental Health During Covid, Answered by a Therapist

Health + Athletics

I Want You to Touch Me: Skin Hunger and Digital Dysphoria in a Pandemic

Health + Athletics

A Therapist on What You Need to Know About Your Own Mental Health in the Time of COVID19

Sex + Relationships

You Need Help: Is It Possible to Repair a Relationship After a Consent Misstep?

Society + Culture

What Your Therapist Wants You to Know

Advice

You Need Help: Stop Gaslighting Yourself

Sex + Relationships

You Need Help: Trusting Yourself in a New Relationship After Early Attachment Trauma

Society + Culture

Reimagining Intimacy: Queer People on Touch and Closeness Outside Romance and Sex

Sex + Relationships

You Need Help: Navigating Aggression, Desire and Gender in Dating

Advice

You Need Help: What Does a Healthy Relationship Look Like?

You Need Help: What Does My Crush on Someone Older Than Me Mean?

Advice

You Need Help: Finding a Therapist for the First Time

Sex + Relationships

You Need Help: How Do I Get My Sexual Confidence Back?

Sex + Relationships

You Need Help: Seeking Poly People and (Relationship) Anarchy in Small Town, U.S.A.

Sex + Relationships

You Need Help: How Do I Spice Up My Relationship?

Youth + Family

“Just Treat Me Like Any Other Mother”: What Queer-Affirming Doulas Can Provide New LGBT Parents

You Need Help: Even Sex Gods Get Anxious Sometimes

You Need Help: Grad School Killed Your Sex Life

Pallas On #PolyamoryProblems: How To Deal With Jealousy "This is absolutely wonderful!!! What a great resource. I would like to make a recommendation: Clementine Morrigan’s writing on polyamory…"

Isla On Riverdale Episode 506 Recap: We’re Far From the Shallow Now "The way they were cutting between Betty and Archie and Veronica during Veronica’s karaoke number was an interesting choice. I…"

Nat On You Need Help: I’m Queer, Kinky, and Monogamous — Will I Be Alone Forever? "As someone who is also perpetually single and 30, and never able to find monogamous folks, I feel this. I…"

Riese On Come Vibe with Me: Simple Sunday Goodbyes "i will miss this column so much! thank you for doing it"

Iarrann mé On The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 77, February 2021 "You people. YOU PEOPLE. My eyes are watering, my sides hurt, I nearly snort-coughed mango soup all over my computer…"

Iarrann mé On Queering Faith: Reclaiming the Holy of Sexuality "That poem! Khalisa, you have a gift – thank you for sharing."

Iarrann mé On Everything That Matters Is Stuck in the Back of My Throat "Carmen, I’m so sorry for your loss. Your aunt sounds amazing."

Sam Lachman On #PolyamoryProblems: How To Deal With Jealousy "Excellent column, super helpful. Thank you!"