She ran her first Boston Marathon, is going to Detroit Sunday and competed in her first Ironman this past summer qualifying for the world championships in Kona, Hawaii next year. However, recovery is possible.”Īfter college, Howell says it was a hard road to recovery but she returned to competition last year with a vengeance. Participating in eating in a normal setting and socially as well. “There's a lot of pressure I think for them to sort of conform to a certain body image so we see that in certain sports,” said Rosu-Sieza who helps people get the treatment they need, which she points out is a process and lifelong commitment. Luciana Rosu-Sieza, executive director of BANA Windsor says athletes venture through their doors. “That was kinda the turning point when something you love is taken away from you.” Howell qualified for nationals but coaches sidelined her because of recurring injuries and heart issues stemming from her disorder. “Had my eating disorder but I tried to hide it from my coaches because I wanted to be seen as an athlete and not somebody who had an eating disorder but eventually that caught up to me,” says Howell. Clair where she made the cross country team.

After leaving Fanshawe, Howell worked for five years and returned to school at St. There was an eagerness to be leaner and smaller that led Howell down a path of depression. “It was something that all of a sudden I started getting into these bad behaviours where I wanted to under eat and over exercise.” “I wanna share my story so that other people feel they're not alone,” she says. Howell says she endured an eating disorder that began in 2012 as a college athlete in London. I'd leave BANA just crying,” says Howell. A 29-year-old Harrow woman is ready to take on the Detroit Free Press Marathon for the first time, but it was a journey to get to this point.

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