In Your Bones™ with Vivian Doan

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Lunar New Year & the Reticular Activating System: Why Your Brain Shapes Posture & Pain

2026-02-1717:56

As we step into Lunar New Year, Vivian explores why tone, language, and expectation are not just cultural traditions — they are neurological design. In this Season One finale of In Your Bones, she bridges Vietnamese Tết traditions with modern neuroscience, explaining how the Reticular Activating System (RAS), predictive processing, and brain-body signaling shape posture, pain, and perception. If you found this podcast through scoliosis, strength training, chronic pain, or nervous system work,...

Beyond the Brace: A Teen’s Journey with Scoliosis, Strength & Self-Trust

2026-02-0540:16

Being diagnosed with scoliosis as a teenager can change how you see your body, and yourself, overnight. In this episode of In Your Bones™, Vivian is joined by Thea, a longtime SCOLIOFITNESS client who began working with her at just 13 years old. Now 18, Thea reflects on her journey through diagnosis, bracing, physio, and what it really took to rebuild trust in her body. This conversation goes far beyond curves and X-rays. Together, they talk about: What it feels like to grow up wearing a brac...

How to Slow Down Time: Presence, Gratitude & the Neuroscience of Novelty

2026-01-2226:30

Ever feel like life is moving faster than you can keep up with? Like time’s flying, your days blur together, and before you know it — another month’s gone? In this episode of In Your Bones™, Vivian explores the neuroscience and embodiment of slowing down time — through presence, gratitude, and novelty. Learn how to rewire your brain to experience life more fully, reduce stress, and regulate your nervous system naturally. Vivian shares her own story of moving from “New Year, New You” hustle en...

Let's Walk It Out — A Moving Meditation for Grounding, Clarity & Forward Motion

2025-12-3012:09

In this special meditative episode of In Your Bones™, Vivian guides you through a walking practice designed to help you drop out of your head and back into your body. This isn't about "going for a walk." This is about walking with intention. Whether you're walking through the woods, around your block, or just pacing your backyard — this practice helps you regulate your nervous system, re-anchor into your senses, and remember what it feels like to move forward with clarity (not urgency). This ...

Why Your Gut Craves Warm Food in Winter (And What Happens When You Fight It)

2025-12-2318:08

We’ve all been there — that bloated, uncomfortable feeling after a meal. But what if it’s not actually about what you ate... and more about how and when you ate it? In this episode of In Your Bones™, Vivian shares how years of chasing supplements and biohacks led her back to the wisdom she grew up with — warm food, slow meals, and mindful eating. From her Vietnamese roots to the latest neuroscience, she unpacks why eating seasonally and supporting your nervous system can completely transform ...

The Threat Bucket: How Your Brain Decides What Hurts (And How to Empty It)

2025-12-1817:23

You've been told "it's all in your head" — and honestly? It is. Just not the way most people think it is. In this episode, Vivian introduces the Threat Bucket — a mind-body metaphor for your nervous system's total load of stress and perceived threats. Discover why your brain creates pain as protection (not punishment), how stress, past injuries, poor sleep, and even what you eat all pour into your bucket — and most importantly, how to empty it so your nervous system can finally re...

When Pain Doesn’t Make Sense: 7 Signs It’s Emotional, Not Physical

2025-12-0911:22

Have you ever had pain that just wouldn’t go away—no matter what you tried? That was Vivian’s experience with elbow pain that lasted for five straight months. No injury. No obvious cause. And every treatment only brought temporary relief. Until one question—from a mind-body consultant—revealed the emotional pattern hidden beneath the pain. In this episode of In Your Bones™, Vivian unpacks how emotional experiences get stored in the body, how the nervous system influences physical symptoms, an...

They Said My Scoliosis Would Get Worse. I Proved Them Wrong.

2025-12-0917:42

What happens when the medical system tells you to "wait and see"—and you decide you're done waiting? In the very first episode of In Your Bones™, Vivian takes you back to the moment everything changed: a routine school screening and a diagnosis that would shape the next three decades of her life. Scoliosis. But this isn't just a story about a curved spine. It's about what happens when you grow up feeling like something's wrong with you. When you try to fix, control, and perfect your way out o...

Trailer: Welcome to In Your Bones

2025-11-1702:49

Have you ever felt like your body was holding a story it didn’t have the words to tell? A knot that won’t release. A symptom that doesn’t make sense. A quiet tension that lingers in your posture, your jaw, your chest... In Your Bones™ is the podcast that helps you decode those signals—through the lens of neuroscience, somatics, and ancient healing traditions. I’m Vivian Doan, Integrative Neuro Specialist and creator of SCOLIOFITNESS™—a scoliosis-informed movement framework that rebuilds stren...

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