Irina González, MSW Student

Therapist-in-Training, Former Journalist, Founder of Unmasking Therapy

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August Writer’s Life: New gig, letting go & mental health [#yearofwriting]

Posted on August 31, 2017October 8, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. I don’t know how to say this other than to say it: August has been a very, very difficult month for me. It’s not because I didn’t have any work and was suffering financially (thank goodness) but because there were some changes and adjustments at Romper…

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July Writer’s Life: Why I write about alcoholism recovery [#yearofwriting]

Posted on July 31, 2017October 8, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Well, after a very successful first six months of the year in terms of pitching, I am flailing a little bit (as you will see later). Predictably, most of my time these days is taken up by my food editor job and my PT writing gig…

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I’m going to read 101 audiobooks in 1001 days

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Anyone who knows me also likely knows that I love almost nothing more than signing up for challenges. They thrill me, really. Last year, I did a pescatarian Whole30 (and I quit early), a “writing every day” challenge for the month of July (and I quit…

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June Writer’s Life: My GLAMOUR piece and Q2/YTD totals [#yearofwriting]

Posted on June 30, 2017July 2, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. So it’s officially been 6 months since I started my #yearofwriting challenge. It’s been a really interesting road since then. At the beginning, I hired a writing coach to reach the next level of my career and ended up spending a lot of time pitching new stories. In…

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Confession: My biggest shame in life is that I’m a writer who doesn’t read

Posted on June 23, 2017June 23, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. This is my absolute deepest, most secret shame… I don’t read. I know that might be a funny or surprising thing to say considering that I am in recovery and could probably shock even the closest of friends with some of my worst drinking stories (only…

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Irina Gonzalez is a journalist, editor, and sober bisexual Latina mom with ADHD. She is the author of the Parenting in Hard Mode newsletter—for those of us who are raising social justice-minded families and getting real about mental health for parents navigating life on the difficult setting. She is also working on an upcoming book on impactful Latinx Americans with The Quarto Publishing Group.

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