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Hi, this is Zyna Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast and I'm here with Beth.

Hi, love you, Beth Howrie.

I'm good, Annie. Thanks so much for having me on. I'm excited to have this whole chat with you.

Yeah, so good. So good. So, um, why don't you sort of take us back to the beginning with alcohol? Where did it all start for you?

Okay, I will do that, but I want to say one quick thing first because, um, you know, I signed up to do this. I don't know, a while back.

And then I looked at the calendar and I realized today, September, 2013 is two years ago, today was the last time I had a drink.

So I know I could really cool.

I started drinking many, many, many years earlier. I was, I think only 12 or 13 and, um,

like, in my household drinking was just really normal. My parents were moderate drinkers. They drank their everyday drinkers.

I really didn't ever see them drunk. It wasn't like alcohol was necessarily a problem in our household. I thought it was normal. I thought it was what everyone did unless you, um,

or maybe religious and certain, you know, maybe a woman or a muscle that you drank. So when I was offered alcohol and early age, I didn't really freak me out. I was all about trying it.

I lived in a really, really small town, um, in New York state. And so there was a group of kids and I just happened, I happened to fall on the underside.

So, you know, the older kids offered and I was, I was all about it. Um, I remember the first time I drank, we were like sitting in circles and the grass.

And I was drinking and it didn't realize like when I stood up, I remember like that would be feeling and no, I remember really getting home. But I actually, I like peed my bed, which I was not the best pier since I was the night first, you know.

So again, this is like 12 or 13 and I realized, whoa. Um, this is maybe more than I thought it was. Um, and there was just like incidents like that, like older kids kind of feeding me beers or whatever.

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