This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without

judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.

Hi, this is Annie Grace and today I have Terrence, a special guest. He has an incredible

naked life story to share with you that has some ups and downs and I think you really

enjoy it. So we will get started with Terrence.

Yeah, this is great to be on here. I'm trying to think of where to start. I guess the beginning

is probably the sensible place. Like a lot of us, I have a pretty epic saga of drinking, but

it started when I was a freshman in high school and the party I was at was this huge house in

Napa, California. So it was actually next to a vineyard. I was cliches. I was. And as soon as I started

drinking, I realized that this was the beginning of an incredible romance and I just remember

just holding the bottle of vodka at a pretty much 90 degree angle and just chugging it.

And the next thing I knew I was waking up on the volleyball court at the house, covered in

my own vomit and Taco Bell. So at some point that night, I ate Taco Bell and threw up. But yeah,

but yeah, so that wasn't probably a great sign, but I wasn't high school. And so

and I actually didn't really drink much after that. Sands a few occasions for the rest of high

school because I actually ended up joining a Christian youth group. I skateboarded and I didn't

really have just to give this sort of some context. So I grew up in Napa and I was one of the few

poor kids. I grew up in the house that no one wanted to visit. My mom was a she struggled very

very severely with alcohol. She was a bartender. I sort of grew up in a bar which isn't as glamorous

as cheers will have you believe. But yeah, I didn't have a dad. I didn't really have any family

besides my mom and my brother who he had his own addiction issues. So he with alcohol as well.

So I ended up joining a youth group really just to not be in my house and to be around other people.

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