Euna Yang

Biography

Having suffered the physical and psychological effects of bullying and bulimia for more than a decade—from being labeled “the fat kid” on her native Guam, through undergraduate studies at Carleton College in Minnesota, through dieting culture, unsuccessful eating-disorder programs, and endless family and group therapy sessions—Euna Yang was an empty shell.

“There was this one moment,” she explains. “I was inpatient for a while, and I left for about a week, and I was already slipping and sliding. I was hovering over the toilet, and I had just purged everything that I had eaten, and I was contemplating how much pain, how much suffering this felt like. ‘I’m kind of not really living right now, and I hate this and hate everything that has been happening.’ I had quite lost my way.”

She credits the care and nurturing of a nurse practitioner at the Melrose Center in Minnesota with rescuing her and inspiring within Yang a mission to help others stop the ache, a key part of why she joined the Doctor of Nursing Practice (Psychiatric Mental Health NP) program at Johns Hopkins.

Learn more about Euna Yang’s journey to the DNP program.