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Curated Collection #59
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The Last Three Collections by ILLUMINATION
We believe you find some valuable and enjoyable pieces on this collection and previous collections.
Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today
Five Game-Changing Tips to Design a Customized Diet to Thrive Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health #well-being
Three Practical Tips to Become Fat-Adapted and Shorten Waistline Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health #fitness #weightloss
Why Happiness is Hard(-er) to Achieve in America — Part 2 Anastasia Frugaard
What is AI Really? Want to Try AI? Dr John Frederick Rose
Who is President Putin’s Family Arlo Hennings, Ph.D.
Local Child Shocked His Entire Life Is On Facebook Matt Lillywhite
4 Signs You May Have Inverted Narcissism Tendencies Above The Middle
How Black and White Thinking is at the Root of All Extremism AbdulElah AlTamimi (Abi)
Daily Done — Part 7: Minimalism Is The Key Alex Philippe
I Hated Guns, Then I Moved To America Alex Rosado
EMDR Alexandra Duncan
What is My Relationship Attachment Style? Andrea Duran
How to Raise Your Kids to Speak 4 Languages Fluently Andrey Pilipets
Someone Translated My Medium Article to Thai and Put It on Their Website Andrey Pilipets
Your Coffee & Tea Drinking Habit May be Preventing Two Major Health Downfalls Ange Dim
3 Manifestation Lessons from 8 Years of Trying to Land a Cruise Ship Gig Angela Choi
The Life In Food Annelise Lords
How Quanta Correlate With Your Thoughts Antonis Iliakis
A Mysterious Lamp Ended this Man’s Years of Happy Married Life Aravind Balakrishnan
Cat-a-Tonic Aslynn Roe
How to Destroy Your Marriage in 5 Easy Steps Barry Chaffee
The two contradictory ways of creating stuff Ben Guttmann
Thinking Zen at a Croatian Barbershop Benjamin Carter
What Being Reliable Can Do for You Bill Abbate
Being With A Beautiful Woman, Attracts More Beautiful Women Black River
Guardian Against the Gloom Brooke Ramey Nelson
5 Best Things To Do In Zürich (Switzerland) Bryan
Why Getting Someone’s Name Right Matters Calum James
Who Will Teach The Children They Are Special? Do You Want To Help? Chasing Dreams
Debunking Fitness Misinfomation Coach Melissa Tarrab
Feminism and the Naruto Run of Sexual Empowerment Coke Francis
Global Powers Override Human Experience Corina Oana
“And Then She Used Her Magical Horn and Escaped Again” Cosmin Firta
Banks and Lenders Have Billions They Want to Lend to Small Businesses! Crystal Mathews
This is How Elon Musk Made His First $22 Million Daniel Mesa
The Part of the Order Fast-Food Restaurants Get Wrong So Often Darren Richardson
Poem: Healing With Time Dharan.M
What if, instead of guns and sanctions … Diane Gillespie
New Writers, Do One of These For Yourself Don Martin
Why Gratitude Sucks ehilides
From Shadowed to Shining Elizabeth Emerald
Content Ideas for March Elizabeth Loberg
The Four Year Old Boy Who Shot At Police Floyd Mori
Have You Noticed The Elephant In The Room Yet? It’s called ‘Nothing Lasts’ Frank T Bird
Inflation or Price Gouging? From the Mountain ~ Stories & Photos of JD Adams
What Your Mom Didn’t Tell About Money and Self-Discipline — Did She? Gereon Wellmann
Facts That Nobody Told You About Brilliant Leadership Gokhan Yalcuk
These are The 5 Mistakes of Bill Gates That Made Amazon, Google & Apple Successful Gr8wellwisher
Getting Combative As A Leader Greg Sweeney
There’s No Hope America Harry Hogg
Reclaiming My Divine Femininity: Ushering in a New, Matriarchal Age HealingLivMama
What Is Genetic Testing? Hello100
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Discovering What You’re Really Made Of J.D Rehbein-Wrightstein
What Can We Do To Help The People Of Ukraine? J.R. Heimbigner
Your Concept of Morals Is Flawed James Ssekamatte
As a Child In Post WW2 England, I Begged My Mother To Tell Me There Wouldn’t Be Another War. . . Janice Macdonald
It’s Not Just the Oceans We’re Trashing: Now Space Junk Is Hurtling Towards the Moon Jennifer Geer
Is Divorce PTSD Real? Jennifer M. Wilson
A Lesson In Facing Obstacles Jennifer Smith
How to Find Your Favorite Health Lifeline Jessey Anthony
The Trick that Top Authors Use To Attract Gazillions of Readers Jessica Rabel
Hello. I Don’t Care To Be Normal — No How, No Way JoAnn Ryan
The Godfather: 50 Years Later Joseph Atzinger
If I “Pull Away” From You: Revisited Joshua J. Lyon
How I Find The Courage to Write About New Topics Joy Nibbs
Self-Love 101 — Part II: Three Elements Julia Pereira Dias
The Key to Snatching a Younger Man June Kirri
Grief is Selfish Karen Grant
When A Parent Dies While You’re Away At College Kay Bee
The Moving Train(Wreck) That Is Vladimir Putin — In A Nutshell KL Simmons
3 Ways Parents Can Create Criminals / Offenders. Kunaal b
3 Ways Parents Can Create Criminals / Offenders.
Most of the time, it starts in the home.
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New to Writing and Feeling Overwhelmed By All the Experts Kylie van Gelder
What I Have Learned From Writing Bad Stories Leonard Tillerman
Dying to Be Perfect: Anorexia Nervosa Lily Hale
Earn an Extra $1000 Per Month by Selling Prewritten Content. Lori Ballen
Why You Need To Care About Ukraine Mandy McElroy
You Are Not Your Brain Mark Eid
An unexpected Heavenly communication Markus Scorelius
An unexpected Heavenly communication
The most unusual inspirational idea I have ever had.
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Before Canada’s Emergencies Act, There was the War Measures Act (and the police) MCQ
Why I compare complex PTSD therapy to an onion Mick McIntyre
Zentangle — Lesson 101 Mike
This One Simple Snack Can Cut Your Chance Of Dying By 20% Mike Lewis
Officially An Orphan Misty Rae
Mrs. Monroe N. A. Kazi
More Food banks than McDonald’s restaurants. Nasar Karim
The Benefits of Being Mistaken as Pregnant Natalie Forrest
Autism and Loneliness Natalie Forrest
Dating and Emoji Unknown Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue, Author on Amazon
Why More Is Less. Wake Your Zombie Followers Up & Become a Better Writer (“¯\_(ツ)_/¯”) Nova Richards🪐
5 Amazing Ways the Writing World Is Being Disrupted. Are You Ready? October J.
Quotes on Power Øivind H. Solheim
How I Conquered Chronic Negative Thinking Pach Deng
Freelance Writing Opportunities — Make Hundreds of Dollars or More Writing For These Websites and… Pamela Kazmierczak
I Watch My Husband When He Gets Dressed, A Poem Patti Murray Voncannon
We Should Probably Thank Alice in Accounting paulmartincurry
The “Creator” Economy Sure Is Creating Snake Oil Salesmen Peter Shanosky
7 Brazen Realities Of The Real World That You Cannot Ignore Pius Adejumobi
Greed: The Evil Master Qasim Adam
You Are Not Out Of Ideas, You Are Tired Rafay Hiraj
Prison of Your Own Thoughts RBGraham
Where Do We Go When We Dream? Richard Landeau
15 More Alternate Endings to Famous Proverbs Rob Dods
Tender Moments — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
I Will Write Roxy Wright
Would You Invest 54.72 USD in a 72 Year Marriage? Scott Ahlsmith
Gaslighting — What is It? Shefali O'Hara
DNA of Entrepreneurship Shyamdeo Ranjan
Top 3 Ways to Celebrate Small Wins on the Way to getting Big Win Sidra Masood
Want To Tackle Your Fears? Treat Them Like Goals Spencer Ellis
Don’t Let a Corporate Bully Destroy your Tech Startup Steve Sponseller
The Keto Deficit Steven Anthony
First Victoria’s Secret Model With Down Syndrome Is Sofía Jirau The Sinfeld Times
Earn Money For Your Stories Tree Langdon
What it’s Like Starting Your Life During Adulthood Vanessa Sanchez
My Chinese boyfriend broke up with me overthinking getting married Vicky Hui
How I Make $3 Million a Week Through These Side Hustles Viraj Randev
Creating in our image: Ego or lack of vision Waking Up Owls
The Return to My Sonic Sanctuary Walter Pop Matthews IV
How To Build A Digital Asset As A Writer. Wellness Xplora
Six Weird New Dating Trends Every Single Person Must Know Wendy Scott
Three common Questions People Have About Homelessness Lawson Wallace
5 Things We Can Do to Manage Our Anger in This Catastrophe Yuko Tamura
Tips for Writing an Effective Research Title Afzal Badshah, PhD
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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