Irina González, MSW Student

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

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It’s been a year since the start of my rom-com love story

Posted on May 3, 2017June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Last July I wrote about how my life turned into a rom-com cliché and that I was okay with it. It was a post telling the tale of how I met Adam unexpectedly shortly after moving down to Florida. As you now know, the past year…

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Here’s what I learned about partying sober since I gave up alcohol

Posted on April 27, 2017June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. When I first gave up alcohol and went into recovery in July 2015, I didn’t know all of the changes that it would bring to my life. However, one of the more obvious changes are socializing sober. When I was in New Orleans last September for…

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A year ago, I was single, unemployed, homeless, broke, fat and drunk

Posted on April 24, 2017June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Exactly a year ago, I had just arrived in my hometown of Fort Myers, FL. After 11 and a half happy years as a resident of New York City, I had decided to move back to Southwest Florida with my tail between my legs. Unknown to my…

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When did I become that person who calls her car “my baby”?

Posted on April 18, 2017June 14, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. This time last year, I was finishing packing up my apartment in New York City after 12 happy years spent as a New Yorker. I left primarily because I needed a break from city life to recharge and figure out the next steps in my career…

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How to choose to be happier in our crappy world (VIDEO)

Posted on April 13, 2017June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Happiness is something that humans think about a lot. At least I do. For years now, I have been saying that “happiness is a choice and it’s a choice that I make (almost) every day.” That’s still true, of course, but sometimes that kind of thinking…

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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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