My Life in Mud: A Memoir is an award-winning trauma memoir by Vietnamese American author Noel Nguyen, exploring adoption, abandonment, identity, and healing after early separation. Evacuated from Vietnam during Operation Babylift, Nguyen traces the lived impact of trauma, dysfunctional family systems, and PTSD through lyrical storytelling and reflective insight.

About the Memoir

My Life in Mud is a deeply personal and communal memoir that follows the invisible threads of loss, survival, and remembrance. Through lived experience, the book explores adoption, displacement, addiction, emotional neglect, codependency, people-pleasing, narcissistic abuse, and the ways trauma shapes identity and belonging.

Written from witness rather than pain alone, this memoir offers language for experiences often lived in silence—inviting readers to recognize their own survival patterns and begin the journey home to self.

Who This Memoir Is For

Adult adoptees and those impacted by early separation

Trauma survivors and individuals living with PTSD

Readers from dysfunctional or addiction-impacted families

Those healing from codependency and relational abuse

Anyone seeking meaning, identity, and self-trust after trauma

About the Author

Noel Nguyen is a Vietnamese American author, speaker, and transformational mentor. Evacuated from Saigon during Operation Babylift, her work bridges memoir, trauma-informed education, and healing through storytelling. She is the founder of iLotus.org and creator of the Mud to Bloom framework.

https://mylifeinmud.com/noel-nguyen-my-life-in-mud-trauma-healing/

Purchase & Availability

Available in print via Books.by: https://books.by/my-life-in-mud/my-life-in-mud

Preview available on Google Books: https://play.google.com/store/books/category/coll_1673?pli=1

Amazon Kindle: https://a.co/d/3hm21VV

Companion workbook: My Life in Mud: A Path to Choosing Love: https://books.by/my-life-in-mud/my-life-in-mud