Irina González, MSW Student

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

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June 2018 Writer’s Life: Great (full) month back at it! [#yearofwriting]

Posted on June 30, 2018February 22, 2019 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter: Self-Care For Writers. Well, I finally had a month that went pretty well! My writing goal since the beginning of the year was to make $5,000 a month and I FINALLY did it. I’m really excited about this, to be honest, because the past couple of months were difficult. I had shoulder…

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October Writer’s Life: Back at work but where’s the motivation? [#yearofwriting]

Posted on October 31, 2017January 29, 2018 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Well, we’re officially in the last quarter of my #yearofwriting and I do believe I am doing pretty well… But not as well as maybe I thought I would be by this point in time? Let’s see. After last month turned out to be a kind…

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Introducing Moscow Chica – now a blog, book and newsletter [#yearofwriting]

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

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. As you’ve probably noticed right above this sentence, there is something new in my life – and that is that my in-the-works memoir, Moscow Chica: How Growing Up Russian and Cuban Made Me an American, is now also being joined by a brand-new Medium blog (or…

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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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Essay 1: The Day I Became an
American [#52essays2017]

Posted on January 6, 2017June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

This essay is part of the #52essays2017 series focusing on my memoir, Moscow Chica: How Growing Up in Cuba and Russia Made Me an American. For more, please follow this publication and subscribe to my newsletter. My grandfather shook me awake suddenly. My eyes slowly opened, feeling groggy and tired from our overnight flight. It was five in the afternoon there, in the suburbs of Moscow,…

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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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