Editor’s Choice
Hand-Picked Articles #135
Chosen by the content curators of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium

Dear Readers and Writers,
Today, we selected great pieces covering many topics from our experienced writers for your enjoyment. These writers are creative, informing, engaging, and experienced contributors to ILLUMINATION.
You might find interesting stories from this selected list. We enjoy amplifying the stories of our writers.
Thank you for your time, inspiration, and meaningful engagement in these stories. Our writers are grateful for your valuable feedback and reactions to their stories shared in collection #134 posted before.
Here is the link for those who might have missed the previous collection.
We are delighted several writers joined our publications. We welcome them using these collections and introduce them to our readers.
You might find new writers and writer related stories at the end of this post. Let’s please welcome the new contributors who joined us recently. ILLUMINATION is proud to add new writers daily and support them.
Please explore and enjoy these great stories.

Curated Articles from ILLUMINATION Publications
Here Is What Happened When I Experimentally Initiated Autophagy Decades Ago Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Adiponectin Matters for Fat Loss and Inflammatory Health Conditions Dr Mehmet Yildiz
5 Habits of People Who Reject Elon Musk Culture Tim Denning
My Journey to Meditation: The Before and After David Gerken
The Future Of Fashion In The World Dr. Preeti Singh
A Shout Out to “Mystic Inspiration Prompts for Writers” Tara Desai PhD
What Research Shows About Internet Trolls Beth Bradford, Ph.D.
Heaven Is Decked Out In Pink Today Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa
Can You Get a Sunburn in the Winter? James Goydos, MD
I fear that another lockdown is on the horizon. Dr. Deborah M. Vereen-Family Engagement Influencer
5 Reasons You Should NOT Move To Spain Livia Dabs RN,MSc
Let’s Lend a Hand Galit Birk, PhD
Meet Josh Balerite Acol
Overwatch 2 Is Almost Here Illumination Gaming
The Story of Hayli Martenez and Her Lemonade Stand Jennifer Geer
What Your Imagination Can Do for You Bill Abbate
Envy Demands A Lot From Our Brain Annelise Lords
If You Only Make One Resolution This New Year, Make it This One J.J. Pryor
Do You Act Like A Buffalo Or Like A Cow? Nicole Linke
Hand-Picked Articles #133 ILLUMINATION Amplifier
How to Swim Your Way Out of Bad Love Amy Sea
Your Perfect Partner Enters the Quantum Dream Worlds With You Manifesting Outcomes. Lady Jhershierra
Bibliophile, Bookshelves, Biblichor A.H. Mehr
In Quiet, Tender Love Amy Christie
Christmas Cleanup: My Publication Experience I Want You to Know Andrey Pilipets
Virgo Lactans Francesco Rizzuto
The Key to Finding Happiness in Less Than Five Minutes Per Day Ange Dim
Are You A Victim Of Choice Overload? Aniket Saraf
A Writer’s Stories From the Road Brenda Mahler
Aaron Rodgers Saved My Toe Brian Dickens Barrabee
Dementia: Perspectives on Korsakoff’s Syndrome & Vitamin B1 Deficiency Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How to Let Go of a Resentment Bridget Stella Ruxton Wilson
Monoku Grocery Brooklyn Muse
I Ordered Off The Mariah Menu for McDonald’s 12 Days of Christmas & It Made My Life a Little More… Christine Lorelie
I Feel Fear To Read Your Article On Medium Fahim chughtai
How Writers Can Use YouTube Creatively and Productively ILLUMINATION
A True Covid Experience Fanae-5, MS
Why I May Never Understand The Medium Stats Floyd Mori
The Elder Cinis Viatorem
5 Reasons Why You Must Make That Decision You’ve Been Avoiding Now Crystal Garrett
Busy Dr. Fatima Imam
How to Grow a Digital Business in 2022 Elizabeth Loberg
I Made 100 Sales on Etsy — Here Are Some Unique Takeaways Ezra Griffith
How To Start Your Own Podcast Haji
Don’t Set a New Year’s Resolution Until Doing This (Please) Hudson Rennie
You should go outside Jay aware
I’m Not Here Yet — I Need Coffee Jennifer Pierce
Hot Coffee Jim McAulay🍁
On Facebook, I asked My Group to ‘Name a Book That Made You Cry Ugly’ Julius Evans
Let’s Close Out This Year and Enter the New Year with Loving Kindness Kat OM
What Will 2022 Offer You? Lanu Pitan
How To Use 100% Of Your Brain Christina Sponias
Top 10 Board Games for Adults (21+) Live Love Quiz
One Behavior To Take if You Don’t Know How To Rebrand Yourself Lucia Landini
Why I Stay in Touch With My Ex-Husband’s Family Lola Rosario
Deaden Death Ulf Wolf
Can You Look at the Real Person Behind the Disguise? Utpal Kumar
What Are the Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease? Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles
Chant from the Ancient Wenqi Glantz
Bring Internal Traffic To Your Dead Blogs On Medium Sara Marium
In Celebration of the Winds Yonke54
This Eckhart Tolle Trick Ends Breakup Pain! You, Me and Happiness
My Greeting Card For You Jane Harris
Snow: Beauty and Beast Margie Hord de Mendez
Pendulum. Mariam Ali
10 Inspirational Management Lessons I Didn’t Learn From TED Talks Michelle Middleton
Yes, Play With Your Food! Misty Rae
My dream date N. A. Kazi
What Are Your Word Prompts for 2022? Natasha Israni
Pessimistic yet positive Neil Mapes
The Greatest Game You Could Ever Play Nico Sifiso
Medium Should Let Writers Chat Noah Nelson
Analysis of the Unabomber’s Manifesto (Part 1) Panos Michelakis
It’s Okay to Feel Discouraged Patricia Haddock
Are You Ready for What 2022 Is Bringing? Peter Shanosky
This Was How I Talked to Myself Yesterday Dr Mehmet Yildiz
We believe videos more than people Pushpender Yadav
Dealing With Travel Anxiety Ram Vegiraju
Earth Questioned Contact — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
Three Tips to Initiate Autophagy Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Nitric Oxide Nasal Sprays to Tackle COVID-19 Ruben Bouma
That Arm Around My Waist Suma Narayan
The First 100 Tammy Bergstrom
Are We Trying to Escape Our Reality? Tavian Jean-Pierre
10 Reasons Why I Like Being Alone Most of the Time Terence Kong
Featured Stories by Editors on ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications
A Gift I Got That Will Keep On Giving Until The Day I Die KL Simmons
A Gift I Got That Will Keep On Giving Until The Day I Die
There is a first for everything
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Why and How to Smash Your Garlic Tricia Schimpp
Little Boy Blue. Zuri Pommerenk
Ten Tips to Slow Down Dementia Dr Mehmet Yildiz
This Year I Read 20 Books: Here Is My Top 5 You Should Definitely Consider Viktor Marchev
Profiles of our writers from their pen. Curated Writer Bios
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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
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
How Much Of Your Life Have You Spent In Failed Relationships? Arthur Keith
Three Tips to Boost Growth Hormone Naturally Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Starter Kit for New Writers of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications
How To Cope With Varicose Veins Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles
A Portrait of ‘American Carnage’ Alexander Ziperovich
2022 Awaits You ASHLEY CARINO 🌻
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
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
I Just Submitted 7 Short Stories to the Vocal+ Fiction Awards Daniel J Klein
4 Simple Ways To Boost Your Mood Danielle Ramaekers
Taking Science with a Grain of Salt Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How to Educate Your Way to Success David D. Hopkins
Kick-Start Kit for Wannabe Entrepreneurs David Ferrers
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
How Monitoring Blood Markers Help Me Thrive Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Management Fix Eduardo Espinheira
Death Is Compulsory Meditation Frank T Bird
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
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
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
Who needs 100 Followers by Tomorrow?!? Jaja Requa
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
Civil War…Really? Jennifer Pierce
Tune Into Yourself Jodie Helm
In Defense of the Tavern in Dungeons & Dragons John Teehan
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 the Content Coach
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
Just Because I Stay At Home, I Am Not Always Free Lipika
21 Lessons I Learnt In 2021 Liza Blue
4 Easy Steps To Take If You Don’t Feel Fulfilled Lucia Landini
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
Go for the Black Diamond — from startup to scaleup Mika Tienhaara
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
10 Concrete And Proven Lessons From One Year Of Publishing On Medium Kristina God
Wait Larry Nowicki
Don’t Get Your Tinsel in a Tangle Libby Shively McAvoy
From Ideal Weight To A Six Pack Octopus Explorer
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
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
5 Compelling Reasons To Eat Cakes Priyam Samantray
Are You Ready For Your Future? Randy Wolken
4 Easy Ways for Boosting Your Productivity in the New Year Ricky Tam
Shrooming Through 2022 Shaunte Boom
The Artist as a Young Man: A Portrait Suma Narayan
What Omicron variant holds for us? SURYASH KUMAR
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 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
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
New Year’s Eve. Simon Whaley
Smash Inflation and Make a Profit in 2022 Alex Kanellopoulos
Japanese Punctuality Forces Overnight Transition From the West to the East Yuko Tamura
The Empty Vessel Brooke Ramey Nelson
How Writers Can Use YouTube Creatively and Productively ILLUMINATION
Texas and Climate Change Robert Shaneyfelt
How To Easily Reach Your Ideal Weight — By A Slim Person Mike Lewis
Microbes to Clean the Oceans Nina Vinot
Help! Which Slot Machine Myths Are True? Sparky Sparks
The All-New PlayStation Plus Is Finally Here Illumination Gaming
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
My Haiku on Wabi Sabi Steve C
Super Human Bullshit Detector, But I Still Can’t Fly Misty Rae
Let’s welcome the new writers who join us today.
Jam Pel, Riyaaddison, J. Rafid Siddiqui, PhD, The Paul Lee Hub, Bernhard Mueller, Tabs, Presh marvis, Sherri Donohue, Jessica H., Glodean Champion, Anugrahgupta, JaseDMF, Dianne M. Daniels, Abby R, Lea, Vincent, Dash.
Let’s also give a warm welcome to recently joined writers. Some of them have already posted their first articles. Let’s support their content!
Emily Barwell, Dr. Doctor, Gereon Wellmann, Ferdinand Tongson, James Vermillion, wordsmithwriter, Steve’Oh Lawrow, Steve’Oh Lawrow, Olivia Cal, Eric Monk, Aaron An, rickmolloy, Lalitha Brahma, Muhammad Anees, Lisa Johnson, Vik, PhD, Juliene Dinopol, Sarah Smith, Pavel, Shamaz aha, Pranav Sridhar K, John R Godwin, Mark Sanford, Ph.D., Riane Tyler, Angel Molina Laguna, Cristiana Micuta, Patience Hunter, Kade Uy, Kenna, Atty Cronin, Sherrell Riley, Ian Williams, A. Ogunmokun, Leeroy Jenkins, Viston Tea, Edd Mowbray, Cee Arr, Gencay I., Corey Casey, Mani W. Ritera, Jordan Nguyen, Paul Knulst, Aishwarya P, Cahya Asrini, Cahya Asrini, Kavita D., Cahya Asrini, Simple Research, Jason Hart, Aerek Szulc, Emily Denise, Christopher Naughton, Jerry Keszka, Angel Molina Laguna, Atharva Kulkarni, Julian Palumbo, Words2Gold.Ink, Zuleika Gasimova, HsnDigitally, Seif Allah Bouchrara, Tom Hunter, Matthew Kerridge, Kevin Viani, Anna Yang, Sunga Kim, Umme Kulsoom Khatri, Sparky Sparks, sielexis anne, Lynn Heiman, Petru Félix, Mahrukh Saif, Jim Malloy, Amina Giselle, Bikendra Thapa, A. M. Palmer, RJ, A Ethan June, Alejandro Orradre, Curious.Millennial, Chrissy P, Kat Li, Angela Booth, Philip Mann-Montreal, Utsukushii Jinsei, Dr. Psychology, Tom Brennan, Zehavah Moon, Errol Brown, Teresa Wymore, Cassandra Sigmon, Billie, Colleen Killingsworth, Bala LK, Thinker Boy, Amol Shrikhande, Chris Carabott, Aaron Meaders, Nicole Ritter, Francis Lee, Fatima Sah,
Meet new writers joined when this collection originally prepared by ILLUMINATION editors
Let’s welcome these relatively new writers and explore their stories by clicking on the profile links below. Most of them already contribute to our publications.
Collaboration between writers and readers is a success factor on Medium.
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The key consideration for new contributors is to review the onboarding pack quickly, as it includes publication-specific information for a smooth transition. I attached it below.
As a benefit of fast publishing, your stories will start earning income and finding more readers quickly.
Please caption your photos and ensure that that they are not copyrighted: either belong to you or from free sources. Not captioning and using copyrighted photos waste our editors’ precious time and cause delays in publishing your stories.
Please Note that not captioning images and using copyrighted photos will lead to rejection of stories.
ILLUMINATION provided guidance to new writers on collection #128.
We are sorry for the publishing delays. Thank you for your understanding and patience. Your stories will be published eventually.
You may also consider self-publishing as we accept them. However, draft submissions might bring more readers so it is up to you.
ILLUMINATION publications accepts both draft and self-published stories. But, editors give priority to drafts as these stories need to find readers waiting in the queue for a while.
Let’s Meet Our Editors Who Publish These Stories
The following stories cover the profiles of our volunteer editors.
These volunteer editors are the ones reviewing and publishing the stories in these collections. They are from various time zones clearing the publication queue on their precious time daily.
Meet Dr Mehmet Yildiz — Dr Mehmet Yildiz Chief Editor and Owner
Helpful References for New Writers
New writers might check out these stories as they are designed to guide them.
Starter Kit for Writers of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications
Improving the Quality of Writing Using an Editorial Checklist
The Joy of Selling 1,000+ Books In A Month With Minimal Investment
Science-Based Therapeutic Value of Expressive Writing for Mental Health
7 Tips for Freelance Writers Dealing with Chronic Stress Effectively
What I Learned After Publishing 1,010 And Reading 100,000 Stories
Copyright Matters: Zero tolerance to plagiarism on ILLUMINATION
Helpful Guides for All Contributors
Guiding Posts on our Publications
Publication-related stories can be accessed via this collection.
Onboarding Pack for New Writers
New writers, please read this pack before submitting your stories.
Meet Editors of Our Publications
Introducing Writers Bios
Curated Writer Bios
Learn about contributing writers of ILLUMINATION written by their pen
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Publications by Our Writers on Medium
Illumination Fiction Club
Updates from Euphoria
Invitation to ILLUMINATION YouTube Channel
Invitation to Write for ILLUMINATION on YouTube Publication
Invitation: Join ILLUMINATION Gaming Publication as a Writer
Invitation to Potential Writers
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If you are new to Medium, you can join via this link. Readers can read thousands of stories, and writers may monetize self-published content.
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