Irina González, MSW Student

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

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Category: Self-Care

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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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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Thoughts on turning 31… and the
future of Map Your 30s blog

Posted on March 23, 2017June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. When I first started writing about turning 30 years old and decided to create the Map Your 30s Blog, my idea was simple: I wanted to write about all of the changes happening in my life and I wanted to make the point that life doesn’t…

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My “A Day Without Immigrants” Protest Is To Be Louder Than Ever

Posted on February 17, 2017June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. April 6, 1994 will forever be burned into my memory. That is the day my Cuban father, Russian mother, little brother and myself landed in Miami International Airport to seek a better life in America, to find our own version of the American Dream. The thing…

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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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