Irina González, MSW Student

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

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Category: Relationships

How my boyfriend got me to eat healthy again (and visa versa)

Posted on August 19, 2016April 6, 2018 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Sometimes it takes falling in love to remind you of some of the things that are important to you. For me, that something was healthy eating. I have quite a complicated relationship with food. After a lifetime of being overweight, losing 90 pounds with Weight Watchers in…

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Why is it so hard for us to accept true generosity when we date?

Posted on August 9, 2016June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. I wrote this piece in a bout of excitement, elation, love, wonder, guilt and generally feeling both really happy and a little down on myself. It’s been a month and a half since that moment, but this still rings true. Enjoy! Tonight, as I lay in…

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How early is it TOO EARLY to travel in a (fairly new) relationship?

Posted on July 13, 2016June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. After dating for just over two months, Adam and I made a pretty monumental decision: we sent in our applications to get our passports renewed. You see, mine was due to expire and his had already been expired. I can’t quire remember exactly when in our…

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How to make the easiest Dessert Pizza ever [RECIPE]

Posted on July 10, 2016April 6, 2018 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. DESSERT PIZZA, you guys! I have to say that in capitals because, well, OBVIOUSLY dessert pizza is one of the best things that any of us can imagine. Okay, real talk: it’s been kind of a rough week. Okay, it’s been a really really difficult week…

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Aubrey Plaza came out as bisexual and so did I (well, a while ago)

Posted on July 9, 2016June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. It’s always a lot of fun for me whenever a new celebrity comes out as bisexual because, as one of the tribe myself, I can’t help but give a little WOO HOO to our little spark of visibility all of a sudden. This morning I read…

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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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