Christina Valenzuela has been a certified Natural Family Planning instructor since 2013. Her background includes academic degrees in theology, as well as extensive ministerial experience working in the Catholic Church. In 2018, she founded Pearl & Thistle, LLC, to provide a new model of body literacy education for Catholics of all ages and stages. She is a life-professed member of the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic. Christina and her husband live with their children in Massachusetts.