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Curated Collection #99
Chosen stories from experienced writers for avid readers

Dear Readers and Writers,
Today, we selected great pieces out of hundreds of stories published on Illumination. These engaging and informative pieces in the collection cover various topics.
Our aim is to give you a quick taste of our diverse and inclusive publication, ILLUMINATION on Medium.
As 19,500+ writers contribute to our publications, we are grateful to publish and promote engaging, informative, and interesting stories each day. Many thanks our volunteer editors who published these great stories today and recommended for featuring.
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We hope these great pieces satisfy your reading needs. Today, Technology Hits posted Hand-Picked Articles collection #67. It is the curated version of collection #51 by Illumination editors.
You might find the previous collections by Technology Hits at this link. We keep our featured collections in a single post titled Meta Collection of Featured Stories. Our editors enjoy amplifying informative, engaging, and interesting content of our writers using various approaches and tools.
In addition, today, ILLUMINATION-Curator shared outstanding stories from our special publication Illumination-Curated. We are grateful for the support of our volunteer editors investing their precious time to make our writers and readers happy.
Outstanding Stories — Volume 86
Selected stories from top writers of ILLUMINATION-Curated
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Let’s welcome new writers joining us today!
Sydel Brown, D. A. Langley, Topher Freeman, Adrienne O’Brien LMT, Lee Wheaterly, Sobaan Saeed, Dr. Ahmed Al-Jaishi, Elizabeth Ann Curran, Ajmal Khan, Justin C, Ben Smith, Devansh Yadav, Elia Yousf, Charisse Tyson, Chase Dillon, Julien Bellos, Mahmudur Rahman, Friska Riani, Hardik Jain, Muhammad Sarwar, Aakash Dahal, Ken Li.
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It will be great to introduce yourself in a story like the ones in this collection. Readers enjoy reading writer bios to learn more about their background. You may also check great stories in our featured collection from the last three days.
The Last Three Collections by ILLUMINATION
Here are the last three collections full of interesting, engaging, and informative stories covering numerous topics.
We believe you might find valuable and enjoyable pieces on the new collection and previous collections.

Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today
How to Reduce Visceral Fat and Increase Brown Fat with Two Practical Steps Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Why My Australian Wife Had the Urge to Slap a Danish Man Dr Mehmet Yildiz
What Color is Your Parachute Arlo Hennings, Ph.D.
New Year’s Resolution — Immortality Arlo Hennings, Ph.D.
You Will Not Look At Your Overthinking This Way Dr Ashish Juneja
Use This Mindset Shift To Confidently Say “I Don’t Know” Dr. Sarah Lyall-Neal
Make This Week a Healing Week Soojin Jun, PharmD
How To Make A Million Dollars From Writing Matt Lillywhite
What Guilt Feels Like A.H. Mehr
Nonsense over my NewsBreak experience. Alishah Savage
NewsBreak Suspended My Account and I’m More Than Happy Abhi Thakur
The Most Efficient Way To Learn Data Analisis in 12 Weeks: Step By Step Guide Alain Saamego
Cyber Security: The Impact of Cyber Security on Your Business Alain Saamego
Two systems. One mind Alex Artenie
Everyday Poka-Yokes — 5 Foolproof Ways to Do the Right Thing Alex Philippe
Declutter Your Life Aline Henda
Scrub America Zed⚡
Why the “£10k Month” Online Culture is Toxic Amy Cubbon
Dopesick: Overcoming Addiction and Mental Health Issues Andrea Duran
San Francisco is Really Weird. But Not Only the Way You Think. Andrew Nelson
The Most Annoying Thing About Being A Parent Andrey Pilipets
Something Must be Broken on Medium.com Ann Christine Tabaka
A Mother’s Child Is Missing Araci Almeida
Are we worthy of the kindness nature has shown us? Aswathi Ashok
Forgiveness Is A Journey Author, D. Denise Dianaty
You Only Control The Effort, Not The Results Biliz Maharjan
7 Mistakes That Unsuccessful People do ..You Should Avoid Bloody blogger
Sleep & Relax 4 Real YouTube Channel Bogdan Mtn
I Just Self-Published My First Book- Lessons Learned and Tips! Breezy
My Story Received 4.6K Views, 1.6K Reads and Made $1.16 Brenda Mahler
The Joy of Sobriety Bridget Stella Ruxton Wilson
New Jersey High Schools New Law Brooklyn Muse
New Jersey Plastic Bag Ban Brooklyn Muse
Here’s How To Get Rewarded by the Medium Algorithm Caleb Naysmith
Loyalty Casey Lawrence
The Power of Connection Charlene Erazo
Why We Should Have Gratitude Chasing Dreams
50 Claps Are Easier Than You Think Chris Freyler
Warning: How a Balanced and Reasonable Friend Became Psychotic Christina Sponias
What happens when we die? When you need love and acceptance. Cosmin Firta
Think You’re Too Old To Try Something New? Cynthia C Farley
Use These Tags To Go Viral — April 2022 Update Daniel Mesa
How Removing The Phone Draft Feature Prevents Me From Writing Dominika Antonas
How Removing The Phone Draft Feature Prevents Me From Writing
Can we please add it back?!
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Challenges of the Startup Yesterday Don Martin
The Only Way to Have Complete Freedom Online is With Your Own Website Edward John
What’s Stopping You from Starting Again? Elaine Hilides
Resurrection Elizabeth Emerald
Keys To Awaken Your Unlimited Creative Potential And Power Elle Sommer
Reflecting On March And My Goals For April Emma Ryan
Hack your body — serotonin, the happiness hormone Eric Kulbiej
Three Business Concepts to Help You Manage Your Career Etienne Yuan
Some Advice Related to Money Floyd Mori
A Two Year Old Fatally Shot His Sister Floyd Mori
Emergency’s Politruck helps those fleeing the war in Ukraine Francesco Carrubba
The Havana Syndrome continues to be discussed Francesco Carrubba
Writing About Technology: The Reporter’s View Geri Spieler
Help. I’ve Run Out of New Ideas? Now what? Geri Spieler
5 Important E-Mail Mistakes Successful People Never Do Gökhan Yalcuk
The Sudden Gout Sprout! Harry Hogg
Political Worms Have Crawled into Powerful Places Harry Hogg
Curated Collection #98 ILLUMINATION
Outstanding Stories — Volume 86 ILLUMINATION-Curator
Outstanding Stories — Volume 86
Selected stories from top writers of ILLUMINATION-Curated
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A Candle For The Dead Imad
How to find your way in life when you feel lost Ingerul Pierdut
How to Tell If Your Parent Is Narcissistic J.C. Anne Brown
Why Outlining Will Make You A Better Writer J.R. Heimbigner
Out of the Closet Jacinta Palmer
Could I Be Wrong? Could You Be Wrong? James Ssekamatte
As I Continue My Virtual Journey Along The Salt Path, I Compare The Winn’s Risky Adventure To My… Janice Macdonald
Life Is Like A Horse Trying To Throw You Off So How Do You Get Back On And Ride Jason Morton
From Article to Podcast Interview Jeff Herring
Deadly Mistake To Avoid On Your Business Start-up Jerry Pompilio
5 Surprising Ways Lifting Weights Will Change Your Life Jessey Anthony
Oklahoma Criminalizes Abortion: Turning the Clock Back 50 Years Jessica Hubbert
Leadership Secrets: Why High Standards Need Failure John McClymont
10 Books Recommended by the Dalai Lama on Tibetan and Buddhist Philosophy Jose Luis Ontanon Nunez
3 Tips for Coming Out of the Psychedelic Closet to Loved Ones Julia Blum
Simple (and Important) Ways To Practice Self-Compassion & Self-Love Karen Parquet
War is in Us Karlo Tasler
GRIP Book — Part 1, Grip & Your WEEK Kaushik Trivedi
The Oscars Weren’t Just About Will Smith Kay Valley
I tried polyphasic sleep so you don’t have to Kiraly Octavian
Wonderfully Good News That Helped Soothe And Brighten My Whole Future KL Simmons
What Would Happen To You If You Had A Regular, Mandatory Psychologist’s Appointment At Work? kristin schuhknecht
I had 100 Followers, but was I Accepted? Kristina Oberlander
Three Years Ago, I Had My Last Drink Lauren Hall
Britney Griner Picked a Bad Time to Do Something Dumb Lawson Wallace
Dating Online, But Don’t Want Kids? Len Morse
10 Incredibly Honest Wake-Up Calls by Gary Vee Letters from E.K.
7 Reasons Why Your Discomfort Zone Can Revolutionize Your Life Letters from E.K.
The Only One Thing That Arouses Women: With A Catch Livia Dabs RN,MSc
The Monster of Jealousy Lone Brinkmann ✒️📖📚
This Company Controls 250 Million Patients’ Medical Records Luay Rahil
This Is Us Was Too Real Tonight Mandy McElroy
Simple Exercises to Raise Happiness Marianne O
Tesla Stock Is Still Worth a Much More Mark Hake
The Uncivil War in the U.S. Mary Anne Hahn
Kosmo — The ‘New Best’ Freelancing Software of 2022 Matthew Davis
Admit It — You Don’t Care About Climate Change — No One Does Mike Lewis
Why Robinhood is the Best Stock Brokerage for Beginners Mike Toney-Hoffman
Too Tall, Too Big Misty Rae
The Ant and Hawk Nasar Karim
I’ve Been Writing a Ton, But Not Publishing Much Nathan White
How to draw an animal — Tutorial — My Puppy — IbisPaintX Nedelcu Alina
Dating and an Open Mouth Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue, Author on Amazon
Smash Your Marketing Strategy With This Ultimate 3-in-1 Strategic Analysis Template Nova Richards🪐
3 Magazines and Websites That Pay at Least $100.00 Per Nonfiction Article Pamela Kazmierczak
Loving Your Son Paul Neathery
Stranded Penny Grubb
This Graph Will Change your Life! Peter White
Leaving the Hospital on a Spring Morning RBGraham
Why Courageous Optimism Keeps My Followers Coming Back for More Richard Armstrong
Do You Travel to Enjoy, Learn and Discover or Disrespect new Countries, Cultures, and its People? Rob Hourmont
Don’t Waste the Experience of Building Your First 100 Followers Samantha J Vincent
How to Fight Relationship Stress and Win Sandra Pawula
Let’s Create A World Where It’s Okay To Not Be Okay! Sara Marium
9 Things that People Regret the Most from their Teenage Years serendipity
Don’t Ask Me To Work For Your Company Without Telling Me How Much I’m Being Paid Shamar M
The Bird, the Cow & the Cat Shawn Jr
You Will Be Hearing From The Youths Soon Sohail
Why I choose to be a mediocre employee Srikanth
Meditation — To Restrict or Liberate? Sriram Balasubramanian
Are you accidentally infringing the intellectual property (IP) rights of others? Steve Sponseller
Protect your Critical Inventions in a Fast and Cost-Effective Manner Steve Sponseller
The Weight of Exercise Steven Anthony
I did Yoga Nidra Each Day for 30 Days Story Taller
I Took a 20-Minute Bath Each Day for 41 Days Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
Melbourne Mornings Suma Narayan
Hand-Picked Articles #66 Technology Hits
Hand-Picked Articles #67 Technology Hits
10 Important Life Lessons Your Children Should Learn Before They Hit 10 Terence Kong
Why Do Men Drop Their Pants in Front of Me? The Sober Vegan Yogi
Language Ulf Wolf
You Are a Victim of These 7 Deceptive Business Practices Vishal Mehta
The 5 Things I Do in Notice Period After Resigning From My Job Vishal Mehta
Chronicle: You’ve got a friend in me Vivianne Chagas
Elon Musk Feuds with White House Yancy Dennis
Slow or Fast, How Long Will You Last? You, Me and Happiness
Featured Pieces from Yesterday’s Collection
An Award-Winning Conference Ended Up in a Health Disaster in Boston Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How to Take More Risks by Losing Attachment to Outcomes Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros
Don’t Let Sleep Steal Your Golden Years dr.pisoglou
We’re All Fat, But There Is More Than One Reason Christyl Rivers, Phd.
Get a Free Data Science With Python Course with a Certificate! Alain Saamego
5 Powerful Words that Will Positively Change Your Life Zeenat Merchant Syal, M.A, M.Sc
My Australian Wife Refused to Revisit Amsterdam After Two Dramatic Incidents Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Doctors Should Not Shy Away From Faith Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa
The Omicron Saga Agustín Muñoz-Sanz
Thank you for reading these engaging stories.
Let’s Meet Editors Who Publish These Stories
We are grateful for the efforts of our editors who reviewed and published these stories on their own time. Our editors are volunteers who help writers succeed on Medium. They don’t earn money from publishing. They are also contributing writers. You can check their profiles from the following links and connect with them.
Meet Dr Mehmet Yildiz — Dr Mehmet Yildiz — owner and chief editor
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Science-Based Therapeutic Value of Expressive Writing for Mental Health
The Joy of Selling 1,000+ Books In A Month With Minimal Investment
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What I Learned After Publishing 1,010 And Reading 100,000 Stories on Medium
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