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The Last Three Collections by ILLUMINATION
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Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today
Five Powerful Tools to Regulate Emotions & Knock Chronic Stress Dr Mehmet Yildiz #mentalhealth
Solve Hormonal Factors Preventing Fat Loss with 3 Tips Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
What I Learned Working in Finance for 10+ Years Tim Denning #finance
How I Made $10k In Passive Income Aged 10 Matt Lillywhite
8 Brain Damaging Habits to Quit Sufyan Maan, M.Eng #health
I Attended My First Cacao Ceremony, and Let Me Tell You, It Was Not What I Expected. Ale Conrado Carcasona
100 Days of Writing: Day 20 — Getting to 100 Followers Alex Philippe
Who is Amy Sea’s Boyfriend? Amy Sea
Coffee Is a Drug Not a Drink. 3 Reasons Why I Avoid Coffee for 20 Years Andrey Pilipets
A Paper Sheet to Contrast Confusion Angie Elle
OH, CANADA! Anna Marques
Sharing My Gift of Creativity Annelise Lords
First time $4.91 Earning on YouTube ASAD EDUCATE
I logged off social media for two days. ASHLEY CARINO 🌻
I logged off social media for two days
I needed a mental break from being on social media
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No, I Don’t Want to Make Money Assumpta Nalubowa
13 Shocking Secrets From NASA Atheeb Azeem
Study: How often it is recommended to make love depending on age? Bogdan Munteanu
How to Start a Successful Insurance Franchise Agency From Start to Finish? C. Brian Smith
Newsbreak Needs To Fix Their Issues Bryan Dijkhuizen
Newsbreak Needs To Fix Their Issues
Many things to solve to remain attractive for writers
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“Being a Writer Is Easy!” Catrina Cowart
Do You Want To Learn About North American Tundra Swans? Chasing Dreams
The Frozen Heart Cinis Viatorem
Roadside Cross CMad Poet
“We Have Two Lives, And The Second Begins When We Realize We Only Have One.” Cosmin Firta
3 Tips to Boost Your Productivity When You’re Working from Home Crystal Mathews
The View From The Cheap Seats Denise Hedley
Should You Live With Your Partner Or Separately Destiny S. Harris
The Only Reason I Use Social Media is Because it’s Free Marketing Don Sabado
Why Meditation Isn’t A Tool Filip Cabra Makowski
“NO” Most Difficult Word To Say Gokhan Yalcuk
6 Style Mistakes Older Men Make Trying to Look Younger Growth Lodge
I’m a Novice Writer Harry Hogg
These 7 Types Of Food Are Scientifically Proven To Benefit Reverse Aging Hello100
Quick And Powerful Ways To Simplify Your Life In 2022 Hidayatullah
Torment Irene Hernandez
The Best Natural Mood Enhancer I Have Found So Far Jackson Zheng
Channeling My Fair Lady: I Want To Write All Night, I Want to Write All Night Janice Macdonald
Life Is A Game Of Russian Roulette Jason Vu Nguyen
Have you heard? Millenials are considered the Luckiest Jennica Rose
Nan Hauser and Her Altruistic Whale Jennifer Pierce
5 Tricks Proven to Burn Body Fat You Should Copy Jessey Anthony
3 Lessons Learned from Quitting a $120,000 Job to Help Others Achieve Financial Success on YouTube John Adam Ledford
Decision Fatigue: Not so known enemy of personal productivity. Kaushik Trivedi
How to Study Japanese? Kevin Vogel
Black Women, We Need to Stop Coddling Black Men Khadejah
One Thing Most People Don’t Take Seriously For A Good Night’s Sleep KL Simmons
What Is Your Belief About Money? Lanu Pitan
How to Confront and Conquer Shyness Part 2 Leonard Tillerman
You Need to Stop Being Dependent In Order to Be Able to Depend on Others Lily Hale
Sunny Perspective Little Monster
Do YOU have CSSD? Compulsive Snow Shoveling Disorder Lorrae G.
How cheap and joyful marketing can make you rich MarkfromBoston
How to Eat Your Troubles Away: Disturbing Thoughtforms and Culinary Witchcraft with Cookies Markus Scorelius
Strength of my Father Mary Louisa Cappelli
The Dark Side of the Countryside Melissa Elborn
How to Succeed as an Introvert Running an Online Business from Home Melissa Herb
My Childhood Street Michael L Butler
The Night I Encountered True Love Michele Thomas
OpenSea NFT Heist Is Only the Beginning Napoleon
The LBJ Presidential Tapes: Reliving History in the First Person Nick Stockton
Dating and Exploridating Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue, Author on Amazon
Broken Thoughts NIDAA
What You Ought to Know About Color Depositing Conditioners Nkeonye Judith Izuka-Aguocha
Serious About Copywriting and Content Creation. Create a Swipe File. Nova Richards🪐
I Can’t Chase Omkar Ranveerkar
An Olympic Games That Concluded in Controversy Orange Gildersleeve
Freelance Writing — 38 Writing Calls For Submissions (as of 02/21/22) — Get Paid For Your… Pamela Kazmierczak
I am betting my money on these 2 projects Parash Sharma
Hanging In an Old House Paul Coogan
This is the most underrated Side Hustle Peter White
How To Make $100 Per Day Online Simply By Copying And Pasting Richard Appiah
3 Simple Ways To Get To Know Yourself Better. Richard Landeau
Why don’t you get follow back? Saba Rahman
Five shifts that occur when you practice Buddhism Sapna M
Humanity is Most Civilised in This Country! Shashi Sastry
Magenta Shruthi_Rajaram
Hatred of Men is Harming Women and Children Too Skippy von Alte Welt
Hatred of Men is Harming Women and Children Too
Misandry: America’s most insidious plague
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The Best Relationship Book I Have Ever Read Story Taller
EMAS: Making aviation safer SURYASH KUMAR
What’s the Law on Embedding YouTube Videos in your Stories? Susie Kearley
The One Anxiety Reduction Technique People Hardly Recommend, But It Works Terence Kong
How to Stop Interrupting When Someone Is Talking The Sinfeld Times
Life and Death 1 Tomas Byrne
Spring Ulf Wolf
Medium wants me to have more than 100 followers by March 2. Here’s my plan. Vicky Hui
Trick or Treat Zachary Seda
Your Passion Is Hidden in Your Strengths Tamil
10 Life Hacks by the Most Famous Psychologists Letters from E.K.
Working as a Full-Time Content Creator NEVER Makes Me Feel Guilty Lorrae G.
It is Ticking… Brooklyn Muse
Re-featured Stories
Five Remarkable Health Benefits of the Most Researched Fitness Supplement Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Mind as a Complex Adaptive System. Dr John Frederick Rose
Racism in Texas: They Destroyed the High School Records of Black People Cathy Chapman, PhD
As the Ukrainian crisis deepens, how do Europeans feel? Tara Desai PhD
How Do You Subconsciously Crave a Narcissist’s Shaming and Abuse? Melissa Kalt, MD
I’ve published 188 articles, 95% curated and not a single Top Writer Martha Manning, Ph.D.
How Much YouTube Paid Me For 20 Million Views Matt Lillywhite
Do What You Want Effortlessly Bill Abbate
Selected Stories from Previously Featured Stories
How Reading Scientific Research Can Improve Your Writing: A Beginner’s Guide. Ben Rutt, PhD
Seeing The Bourgeois Revaluation in Literature Ellen Clardy, PhD #economy
Reading the Bible in a Year Has Not Been Conducive to Spiritual Growth Cathy Chapman, PhD
Bolstered Dr. Fatima Imam
Does Optimism Stink as Bad as Pessimism? Amy Sea
Three Tips to Prevent & Treat Obesity Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Magnesium Is Not Just Another Mineral Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
My Most Cherished Moment Working on “The West Wing” TV Show David Gerken #life-lessons
Squeeze the Juice Out of the Present Stop Daydreaming About the Future Ayodeji Awosika #self-improvement
The True Story Of The Confederacy Moving To Brazil Matt Lillywhite
Three Tips to Improve Cardiovascular Health Dr Mehmet Yildiz
A Coat of Time Arthur G. Hernandez
Real Estate Agents Can Be the Worst Humans in the World Tim Denning
Why You Should Enjoy Social Media But Not Get Addicted To it Dr. Preeti Singh
Three Tips to Emotional Regulation Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Meet Lanu Pitan
Establishing Utopian America Qadir Abdus-Sabur, Ph.D.
Beware the Foot-Licking and Tooth-Pulling Demons from Persia Brian Loo Soon Hua
How I Healed Abdominal Bloating and Distension Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How I Earned $360 and 6,800 Views From A Single Story Viktor Marchev
Read This When You Want To Make Money Via Investing Richelle Délia, PhD
Breakups: 7 Reasons Why You Don’t Need Your Ex Back Rodolfo Urbano, CPA
On Trauma & Addiction: Lessons from a Defensive Iceberg and His Oversized Hat Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros
Shocking Stats About Non-Communicable Diseases Dr Mehmet Yildiz
WHY are you asking me this? Dr Andrea Polzer
Times Change From Good Old Stiff Neck Ties To modern Gorpcore Dr. Preeti Singh
Meet Julius Evans by ILLUMINATION
Meet Sufyan Maan by ILLUMINATION
Invitation to My New Publication Illumination YouTube Coordinator
Trending Stories on Publication
Five Tips to Melt Visceral Fat and Have a Defined Belly Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Three Tips to Eliminate Insulin Resistance and Shrink Waistline Dr Mehmet Yildiz
School Should Teach Us These Eight Simple Things (Yet It Doesn’t) Tim Denning
Fasting Can Change Brain Chemistry Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Six Lifestyle Habits to Skyrocket Fat Loss Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Reasons Why My (European) Husband and I Will Eventually Leave America Anastasia Frugaard
Five Tips to Slow Down, Lose Fat, and Enjoy Life Dr Mehmet Yildiz
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Short-Form Stories Not For Income But For Visibility. Think Of Them As A Tripwire
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