https://www.shephalysoni.com/work daily 1.0 2025-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1536024630049-AHXM0MEHI72YW2J6C4OD/good+heart+resize.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1536024805495-WBT6GGF8E58C3J0FAMEC/bad+heart+resize.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1724425739468-JTFPFQG4TF741PF0T8SQ/IMG_0171.jpg Work - I Can't Sit With This https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1724425700297-N1HLZRT23LO0IT74N4JT/can+you+tolerate+it+copy.jpg Work - Can You Tolerate it Though? On Transcranial Magnetic Therapy. Plants that are beautiful yet poisonous. Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade) Conium maculatum (hemlock) Convallaria majalis (lily of the valley) Fritillaria meleagris (lazarus bell) Brugmansia (angel's trumpet) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1724425705545-8EKWQL8APW3TB0PSC9KG/depression+copy.jpg Work - ICD-10-CM Code F32.2 On depression. Plants that are invasive species. Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) Forsythia Phragmites australis (common reed) Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle) Nyctanthes arbor-tristis (night-flowering jasmine, shefali) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1724425717587-HFWSBNCSGNQZFXAHBV2R/h1n1+copy.jpg Work - H1N1)pdm09 On influenza and other communicable respiratory disease. Plants that help us breathe, and those that suffocate. Please remember to wash your hands, cover your cough, and stay home when you're sick. Spathiphyllum (peace lily) Forsythia Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1724425723070-G0INW1HBZCL5ZE02STKE/never+just+a+burn+copy.jpg Work - It's Never Just A Burn On Shriners and work with patients who have severe burns. I made this painting to honor the patients treated at SHC, and also to honor the people I work with. "It's never just a burn" is something I was told when I started, and something that stuck with me. I did not truly understand resilience until I met the patients we care for. They are an example to all of us on learning to adapt, grow, and change with their new circumstances. The flowers represent a small portion of the countries and respective national flowers from which we receive patients. This painting is dedicated to my colleagues at Shriners, who tirelessly work to help our wonderful patients and their families. Burn care is meaningful work, but it can be challenging for those who provide it. The dedication and passion my colleagues exhibit in the face of trauma and adversity is a testament to the good things in this world. The healed burn on an exposed hand symbolizes the impact our patients have on us as we try our best to do the right thing every day. Dahlia pinnata (garden dahlia) Lycaste skinneri (white nun orchid) Peristeria elata (holy ghost orchid) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1724425723812-4ITRWKHDV0V7J4BGJCQO/shame+copy.jpg Work - Shame Cannot Survive Empathy On Shame. Plants that take a very long time to grow. Puya chilensis (sheep-eater) Cardiocrinum giganteum (Giant Himalayan Lily) Selenicerus grandiflorus (night-blooming cereus) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1724425727041-369HI7MXS132LYPHBLYR/redirect+running+goals+copy+2.jpg Work - Redirect Your Running Goals On limiting injuries. Plants that feel stagnant. Polytrichastrum formosum (bank haircap) Usnea filipendula (fishbone beard lichen) Parmelia sulcata (hammered shield lichen) Cladonia rangiferina (reindeer lichen) Xanthoria parietina (common orange lichen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1724425718335-AU0JIF3BI7WUXQ0JSUVQ/I+can+sit+with+this+copy.jpg Work - I Can Sit With This https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1724426923725-LJYLZTUCL1PDJKAF5AFH/IMG_0156+2.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1724426923537-G6DYBJ3ECHRY6WBDQXHX/IMG_0825.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1724426925817-DP9LNO2H1RCUYNZST5EC/IMG_1817.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1724426926233-K4CM26AS62AKATECQWIW/IMG_1819.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1724426927951-WUJL87FHRUW9H6K37K2D/IMG_1881.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1636687846153-IOL66XHGH349FBCNES63/image-asset.jpeg Work - Intervertebral discs 16 x 24’’ ink, watercolor, gouache on watercolor paper 2021 An over share (as i do): I made this piece for my therapist. I started working with her in 2016, and our last session was before I moved to New Orleans for medical school. The work is meant to be a combination of us, showing the growth I experienced throughout the years. The plants symbolize aspects of both of us. I chose the spine for growth, and strength. She truly is the connective tissue that helped me deal with countless medication changes, multiple clinical trials, painful but effective TMS, break ups, the trauma of my job. Brittany truly changed my life, helped me identify my values and how to serve them. She helped me become a more resilient person who can cope with depression in a way that I didn’t think was possible five years ago. More so she helped me see that I was and am a resilient person. Leaving Houston is mostly a good thing, but the loss of our sessions together will be hard. I know that I joke about being mentally ill because it helps me compartmentalize, and if you know me well I’ve probably told you to go to therapy because (with the right person) it is wonderful. If you needed a signal today or any day, please reach out to someone. In 2016, I didn’t think I would be alive in five years. We joked about me being a great patient outcome, but therapy is so much more than that. The last thing I’ll say is that going to therapy is not easy, and is made infinitely easier when you have resources like a supportive family, a job, health insurance, and steady income. I could go on about insurance being tied to employment etc but I won’t. Overall it takes willingness to utilize these things, but I write this knowing not everyone has the privilege of access. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/1636688466129-DQ8UZD4539LTQOCEIG2X/image.jpg Work 22 x 30’’ ink, watercolor, gouache on watercolor paper 2021 This piece is an original commission for a friend to embody emotions they had over the course of the pandemic. The pandemic has left many of us feeling like there is a knot in our chest, anxiety filling out bodies, and the most we can do is hunch over and hold something close. Last year I made a body of work that was about uncertainty and trauma, and what can come out of it. This piece was personalized for a client to signify some of those anxieties, and the growth and recovery that develops during and after. For her, it was strength through family and pets. 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This triptych parallels sexual cannibalism seen in praying mantis' and the complexity of apoptosis- programmed cell death. In order to continue life, the body will eradicate parts of itself. 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Reflections on a patient interaction in family medicine clinic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ae8bbddb27e39303e96161d/7a85874e-8613-4510-98c5-ccca9f2b21e0/anxiety+poem.jpg Words - Make it stand out Published in Volume 11 of Lagniappe Literature and Arts Magazine. Reflections on how anxiety is complex.