New Mind Wellness<\/a> in King of Prussia, Pa., where he begin his recovery.<\/p>\n\u201cEveryone just rallied behind me,\u201d Will said. \u201cMy sister was sort of on the forefront of that. She would stay up in the wee hours of the night and check up on me, make sure I was good. You know, it sort of seemed like she was losing as much sleep as I was, worrying about me.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was the reverse of the situation when Izzie had fought her battle with an eating disorder.<\/p>\n
\u201cUp until that point, that was the worst period of time in my life,\u201d Izzie said. \u201cI was away from my friends. I felt isolated. But the one constant I had in my life was, every single day, when I\u2019d get home, my little brother would be there waiting for me. He was the person who held my hand through that whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Will said he gained a deeper understanding of what his sister was going through by suffering through his own battle.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was so hard for me to understand what she was going through,\u201d Will said. \u201cOf course, I could have sympathy for her, but there\u2019s such a big difference between sympathy and empathy. The mind is such a powerful thing, the way it can just twist and contort your brain. From the outside looking in, I had no idea what she was going through. The things we went through were completely different, but just in terms of having a mental battle, I feel like I\u2019ve come to appreciate her so much more.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Will and Izzie Begley<\/p>\n
Now, the brother-and-sister duo from Moorestown, N.J., feel like they can tackle just about anything together \u2013 including Saturday\u2019s 50th running of the New York City Marathon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely been a really emotional journey,\u201d Izzie said. \u201cHe\u2019s one year sober now and I\u2019m so proud of him. As hard as what I went through when I was in college, I would go through that over and over and over again for the rest of my life if it meant I never had to watch him go through what he\u2019s been through.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so proud of him and I\u2019m so proud I get to do this with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Training has been challenging. Will is in Charleston focused on his education. Izzie is in Charlottesville and her television schedule isn\u2019t exactly conducive to marathon preparation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were many days where I would run 18 miles and put mascara on and walk right into work and get in front of a camera and smile,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd pretend like I wasn\u2019t in so much pain.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Izzie is hoping to run the race in an ambitious 3:15. Will is hunting a more modest goal of 3:45. Together, they\u2019re hoping to raise $12,000 by race day and get to $20,000 before their fundraiser officially closes. People can continue to donate<\/a> for two months after the race, Izzie said.\u00a0<\/p>\nSaturday, their parents, other family and friends will be in New York as they run 26.2 miles through the city\u2019s five boroughs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It will be the first marathon for both of them and the NYC race is notoriously challenging, with its multiple climbs and bridge crossings. They don\u2019t expect it to be easy, but they know they have each other to lean on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe knew it was something we wanted to do together,\u201d Izzie said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS19 sports anchor Izzie Begley and her brother, Will, are running to raise money for an organization that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-387794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Izzie and Will as kids.<\/p>\n