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Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION
Three Tips to Boost Growth Hormone Naturally Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Taking Science with a Grain of Salt Dr Mehmet Yildiz
My Journey to Meditation: The Before and After David Gerken
5 Habits of People Who Reject Elon Musk Culture Tim Denning
A Shout Out to “Mystic Inspiration Prompts for Writers” Tara Desai PhD
What Research Shows About Internet Trolls Beth Bradford, Ph.D.
How To Cope With Varicose Veins Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles
Heaven Is Decked Out In Pink Today Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa
I Bought A Movie Ticket And This Is What Happened Dr. Preeti Singh
5 Reasons You Should NOT Move To Spain Livia Dabs RN,MSc
A Portrait of ‘American Carnage’ Alexander Ziperovich
Thoughts That Count Allison Bonilla
Writing poems about those I love: Aliza Amelie Bauer
Want To Go Viral, Express Your Polarized Views And Share Your Experience! Amrit Pal Singh
A New Year Carriageway Amy Christie
Four Ways to Eliminate Mental Fatigue & Take Charge of Your Life Ange Dim
Truth: Friend or Foe? Annelise Lords
5 Simple Steps to Brainstorm and Write an Epic Blog Post Anshul Kumar
How to Fall Asleep in 10 Minutes (Or Less) — 3 Proven Methods Anya Klis
How Much Of Your Life Have You Spent In Failed Relationships? Arthur Keith
2022 Awaits You ASHLEY CARINO 🌻
Happy New Day! ASUS BUTTERFLY
Allow Yourself To Enjoy The Process And See What Happens Athirah Syamimi
My Top 2021 Stories And A Closing Thought Attila Vágó
The Simple Hack You Can Use to Turn Any Unproductive Day Around Avigail Laing
My Journey: A Year Writing on Medium Azja Delana
Why I’m Not Making New Year’s Resolutions Benjamin Carter
Do You Want More Than You Do? Bill Abbate
What Makes You Feel Good? Breezy
4 Life Skills Everyone Should Know Brett Millan
2021 Was More Than a Panic! at the Disco Brooke Ramey Nelson
I Challenge You…Yes You… Brooklyn Muse
A Killer Among the Medical Profession Carol Price
Those Fake Smiles You See Cathy Coombs
What Does Seeing 808 or 909 Or Other Palindrome Numbers Mean? Celine Lai
Have You Considered Not Setting a New Year’s Resolution? Chloe Kay
Why I have a Master’s Degree and am a Young(ish) Unemployed Mom. Courtney Crawford
How To Increase Your Productivity And Become A Highly Efficient Person Crystal Mathews
Your Eating Habits Impact Your Mental Health Cypriano Mokobia
I Just Submitted 7 Short Stories to the Vocal+ Fiction Awards Daniel J Klein
4 Simple Ways To Boost Your Mood Danielle Ramaekers
How to Educate Your Way to Success David D. Hopkins
Kick-Start Kit for Wannabe Entrepreneurs David Ferrers
My 2022 New Year’s Resolutions David Gerken
Past-Life Addictions Debbra Lupien, Voice of the Akashic Records
5 Tips to Feel Marvelous Spirit of Christmas and Laugh a Lot Denys Opria
When Can I Meet You in the Field Between Us? Desiree Driesenaar
The emotional stages of selling your own house For-Sale-By-Owner. Don Martin
Follow Your Muse Dr Michael Heng
Management Fix Eduardo Espinheira
A Gift I Got That Will Keep On Giving Until The Day I Die KL Simmons
Moving to Bali as a Digital Nomad in 2022 Fabiana Palano
Avoid Mediocrity At All Costs Fahri Karakas
NewsBreak Has Policies Just As Confusing As Medium’s Floyd Mori
We Are Each Other[9] Frank Ontario
Death Is Compulsory Meditation Frank T Bird
Let’s Lend a Hand Galit Birk, PhD
The 5 Best Things That Have Happened in 2021 Gokhan Yalcuk
Fossilised Fishhooks Groupe Intellex
Death of a Man-Eating Monster H.D. Ingles
Four Tips to Help You Keep Your New Years Resolutions Hannah Savard
One More Night Harry Hogg
Still Going Strong Henery X
Fear Has Many Masks. I am not Hermione
Downstream in Grief; Upstream in Time Isak Dinesen
I Stay Jade Willow
About my end-year reflection as a Medium writer and my new book. Jair Ribeiro
Why I’m Celebrating Christmas until New Year’s Day Jaja Requa
Who needs 100 Followers by Tomorrow?!? Jaja Requa
How to Get Your Life Together James Christian
How to Find More Writing Time James Frank Sanders
A Lot Of Us Would Be Much Happier If We Only Treated Our Careers Like We Do Our Diets James Ssekamatte
Five Admirable Questions That I Got From Tim Ferriss Janice Lizabeth
“God is Not a Christian. Jean Anne Feldeisen
The DEATH of Email Marketing? Jeff Herring
Civil War…Really? Jennifer Pierce
75 Words A Day Jim McAulay🍁
Tune Into Yourself Jodie Helm
In Defense of the Tavern in Dungeons & Dragons John Teehan
NC 3-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Shoots Self on Christmas Day Judson Hurd
5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Working With Psychedelics Julia Blum
Meet Julius Evans Julius Evans
The Quest for a Long-Lost Family Recipe Katie Churchward
My Mary Kay/ Avon Experience Kristen Kay Brady
10 Concrete And Proven Lessons From One Year Of Publishing On Medium Kristina God
Wait Larry Nowicki
Finding The Way with Tao Leigh Robbins
Don’t Get Your Tinsel in a Tangle Libby Shively McAvoy
Just Because I Stay At Home, I Am Not Always Free Lipika
21 Lessons I Learnt In 2021 Liza Blue
Jacket (For My Cold Heart) Long Lost
4 Easy Steps To Take If You Don’t Feel Fulfilled Lucia Landini
Synchronized Energies Marcus
Vaccinated and Boosted? Omicron Is Coming for Your Sanity. Maria FS
The Words We Choose Can Be Toxic Marsha Hamby Savage
Facing The Truth Can Be Humiliating And Hard Mary Liga
Pickled Herring on Rye Michael Nagy
5 Reports Every Community Manager Should Know Michail Bukin
Go for the Black Diamond — from startup to scaleup Mika Tienhaara
5 Shows Premiered In 2021 Rated 100% Fresh On Rotten Tomatoes Carl Lemieux
Can I Let Go of My Servants? Miss A.
Why Depression Is a Healthy Life Experience Mukundarajan V N
2021 Off Road Journal Nathan White
When Things Are Going Well, the Negative Voices Can Creep Back In Nicole Sponsel
How did living alone as a student change my life? Niftaliyev Alish
How Much I’ve Earned Thus Far on Medium Since My First Day Noah Nelson
From Ideal Weight To A Six Pack Octopus Explorer
Solemn Reflections: Another Year’s Ended Onyema Williamson
An Open Letter to Those Asking Us Not to Complain About This Platform Ossai Ceejay
Patriot Nation Needs To Just Stop Pamela Kazmierczak
We Are All in the Donner Party Paul Coogan
Jordan Peterson is Right Paul Goodman
50 Pieces of Timeless Wisdom From A German Philosopher Personal Growth Lodge
5 Compelling Reasons To Eat Cakes Priyam Samantray
Incredibly Wise Irish Proverbs And Sayings Randy Salars
Are You Ready For Your Future? Randy Wolken
4 Easy Ways for Boosting Your Productivity in the New Year Ricky Tam
Situation Defused — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
Abstract Linking COVID-19 Vaccines to Heart Trouble Risk Earns Expression of Concern Ruben Bouma
If You Want to Save the World, Why Not Start With Sea Turtles? Sally Prag
10 Things We Don’t Learn In School — Sigh Of A School-Bitten Sara Marium
How to Become a Perpetual Ideas Machine Shashi Sastry
Shrooming Through 2022 Shaunte Boom
The Artist as a Young Man: A Portrait Suma Narayan
What Omicron variant holds for us? SURYASH KUMAR
The Three Things I Am Leaving in 2021 Tavian Jean-Pierre
7 Things I Recently Learned About Joan Didion Trisha Ready
The English Language Ulf Wolf
Maximize Your Success in Just 3 Steps Valerio
Happy? Happy Veronika Kaufmann
An Honest Retrospective of past New Year Resolutions Vidhya Parvathy
5 Things You Can Do To Feel Happier, Right Now Vishnuaravi
How to Protect Yourself Spiritually with Magick Wendi Lady
Undercover Bill William (Dollar Bill) Mersey
4 Simple Habits to Quit In 2022 WrittenMastery
The Villain makes the story and what it says about us Yancy Dennis
Definitions You, Me and Happiness
To The One — Suffering In Silence Fahim chughtai
Broken Thoughts NIDAA
Ten Rules for Life Michelle Scorziello
The Word for 2022 Allison Bonilla
Etsy vs Your Own Website Vanita Cyril
The Warby Parker Paradox Fit$
What Successful People’s Stories Teach Us If We’re Ready to Read Between The Lines Zsuzsanna Agocs
Have You Ever Wondered Why You Were Born? Patti Murray Voncannon
What Your Soul Needs: Tarot Pick a Card Emmarie Hodge
21 Lessons from 2021 That I’ll Be Taking into the New Year Alyssa Chua
New Year’s Eve. Simon Whaley
Smash Inflation and Make a Profit in 2022 Alex Kanellopoulos
Can You Get a Sunburn in the Winter? James Goydos, MD
Sell Your Services On LinkedIn for free! But How To? Sara Marium
Japanese Punctuality Forces Overnight Transition From the West to the East Yuko Tamura
The Empty Vessel Brooke Ramey Nelson
Three Tips to Initiate Autophagy Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How Writers Can Use YouTube Creatively and Productively ILLUMINATION
Texas and Climate Change Robert Shaneyfelt
The Less Spoken About Aspects of Coming Out “Later in Life” Leigh Robbins
How To Easily Reach Your Ideal Weight — By A Slim Person Mike Lewis
Microbes to Clean the Oceans Nina Vinot
My Haiku on Wabi Sabi Steve C
Super Human Bullshit Detector, But I Still Can’t Fly Misty Rae
I fear that another lockdown is on the horizon. Dr. Deborah M. Vereen-Family Engagement Influencer
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