Irina González, MSW Student

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

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December Writer’s Life: How much I made & wrote in 2017 during the #yearofwriting

Posted on December 31, 2017April 6, 2018 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Well, here we are. It’s the end of my #yearofwriting and I have some hefty writing goals to live up to. I’ll get into more of that later in this post, but first I just wanted to talk about December. What happened in December? Well, for…

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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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The lesson I learned about myself on my first Valentine’s Day with a partner

Posted on February 14, 2017June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Valentine’s Day isn’t for everyone.  It’s a very specific, sort-of-made-up holiday that tends to favor those in love and fans of cheesy gestures of affection.  I have never in my life been one of those people. Sure, I was a self-admitted hopeless romantic but I usually…

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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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My life turned into a rom-com cliché and I’m okay with it

Posted on July 3, 2016June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. I have a confession to make. Just over two months ago, I was single AF. Like seriously… I haven’t been in a serious relationship since 2011. Not for a lack of trying, necessarily, but it just hasn’t been in the cards for me lately. I’ve dated –…

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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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