Editor’s Choice
Hand-Picked Articles #138
Chosen by the content curators of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium

Dear Readers and Writers,
We selected interesting and engaging pieces from our experienced writers for your weekend reading.
These stories cover several topics. Writers in this selected collection are creative, engaging, and experienced contributors to ILLUMINATION for a while. We enjoy their stories and introduce new readers.
It is great pleasure to amplify the great stories of our writers and satisfy the reading desires of our loyal readers by giving them many options daily.
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 recent collections #135, #136, and #137 posted before.
Here are the links 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.
New writers’ introduction and writing 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 contributors daily and support their content.
Please explore and enjoy these great stories.

Curated Articles from ILLUMINATION Publications
Five Mental Health Conditions Causing Memory Disorders Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Problem Solving: The Sexiest Skill of the Century Dr Mehmet Yildiz
The Profound Spiritual Lesson Tennis Has Taught Me David Gerken
Are Folks Excited? Illumination Has a YouTube Channel Dr. Preeti Singh
Invest in Your Writing, Pays Better than Dividends Carolyn F. Chryst, Ph.D.
But Adam Smith’s Dismissal of the Transcendent Ultimately Led to the Sociopath Max U Ellen Clardy, PhD
Do You Believe What You Want To Believe? Christyl Rivers, Phd.
Blame Is Pervasive in Human History Cathy Chapman, PhD
How to Get Wealthy in 2022 Richelle Délia, PhD
Pandemic coronavirus mutations are more than replacing a letter in the viral genome Dr. Agustín Muñoz-Sanz (MD)
Film Review: Faces Places Carla Woody
Meet Shashi Sastry
Meet Maria Rattray
Are You Ready To Cut The Emotional Chains To Your Past Abuse? Ada LLoyd
Truth Be Told? Adelia Ritchie
This is the Biggest Barrier Against Innovation Alberto Guerrero
Stop Treating Healthcare Providers Poorly Alexandra Duncan
When God says N to the O Allison Bonilla
All I Want for Christmas Is Peace A.M. Radulescu
3 Ways To Stop CATASTROPHIZING Above The Middle
Everything You Need to Know Isn’t Taught in Kindergarten Andrew Rodwin
My Friend Screwed up my Relationship with his Wife Brian Dickens Barrabee
Stop Seeing Money as Your Objective, It Is Only a Tool to Obtain freedom Bryan Dijkhuizen
Savior Self Cara J. Jaye
We’re on January 6, Did You Already Fail This Year’s Resolution? Carlos Jeronimo
My Family Abandoned Me Because of the Pandemic. Cee Cee
Surviving Brain Fog Annelise Lords
The Woman Who Sold Farts Beth Byfield
Hand-Picked Articles #134 ILLUMINATION Amplifier
How to Understand the Private Struggle of a Conspiracy Theorist Charlie Lukas
Let death be your mentor in 2022 Charlotte Reiff
My Dying Sister Wanted To Climb A Mountain — How I Made Her Dreams Come True Chrissie Marie Massey
I Got Soul, but I’m Not a Soldier Brennan Phillips
How To Scratch Your Butt (Tutorial) Christopher Kokoski
It’s January Daniel Barry
Income Streams for New Entrepreneurs. Elizabeth Loberg
Love Coming Your Way: Tarot Pick a Card Emmarie Hodge
What did I Learn From Over 10,000 Minutes of Meditation? Fit$
Another Tragedy In George Floyd’s Family Floyd Mori
Know Your Purpose Frank Ontario
How To Be Cool Frank T Bird
National Greatness vs. Rule of Law Gadwall Jackson
Bizarre Crimes You Could Be Transported To Australia For Committing Delilah Brass
6 Effective Strategies To Sell an Idea to Your Boss Eduardo Remolins
Why I’ll Never Drink Coca-Cola Elisezell
Can Our Names Influence the Types of Jobs or Hobbies We Choose? Gill McCulloch
Make Money Writing on These Websites Gokhan Yalcuk
What Dating Apps Don’t Understand About Love Growth Lodge
I Don’t Have Words Harry Hogg
To My Beloved Dead Husband: Science Fiction Is Here Now Janet Stilson
Leadership in 2022 … What Skills Do You Need to Embrace to Become Great? Jeannette Seibly
4 Hidden Steps to Get Your Creativity On Jeff the Content Coach
December on NewsBreak: A Jump in My Stats Jennifer March, MS
People Who Ask for Change Just Want to be In Control Jesse Bramani
75 word interview Jim McAulay🍁
I Have No Niche, Then This Became My Niche Joachim Guth
Why Materialism Is Impacting Your Happiness and Success John R. Miles
These Are The Healthy Habits For A Happy Life In 2022 Hidayatullah
Autumn Sighs Iva Hotko
Honor Air James Frank Sanders
Shed No Tears for Things Not Meant to Be Josephine Crispin
Get the COVID Vaccine or Not — It’s Your Choice — But … Katharine Valentino
Should You Publish an Ebook in 2022? Paul Myers MBA
Grateful Though Blind And Hurting paulmartincurry
How Much Medium Paid Me for 100,000 Views Tarun Gupta
Next-Level Financial Freedom: Looking at My 2k22 Goals The Business Period
Diversification: Do or Don’t? Thijs Nijenhuis
3 Gifts For Everyone From the Work of bell hooks thiskatiewalker
My One Big Problem With Kindle and Why It’s Got To Go Katie Churchward
Five Habits That Helped Ben Francis Become a Better CEO Patricia Vilchez
Time and Space Paul Leonidou
Authenticity In A Leader Is Like A Diamond Hidden In Stone Kim Kelly
Why I Pay for Focused Time at Home (Because It Works) Marissa Renee
21 Truths I Wish I knew when I was 21 Markus Scorelius
How To Use Self-Awareness To Remove Fear and Take Back Your Life Matt Legg
Self-employed, full-time teleworker. Attractive, but not for everyone! Maximus
The One Powerful Perk of Being a Teacher Michelle Scorziello
Use A Planner If You Want Help Getting (and Keeping) Your Shit Together KL Simmons
No Evil Just Efficient Reaction Larry Nowicki
Six Socially Conditioned Behaviors You Don’t Actually Need to Follow Lyuba Golovina
How I “Evacuated” My Friend From An Abusive Relationship Mila
A Reflection on the Most Emotionally Charged Moments in Spider-Man: No Way Home Murtaza Ali
It’s a Great Day To Be Alive and a Mustang! Nathan White
The Great Relocation Neil Mapes
How Can You Adapt & Sustain Ambitious Mindset Octopus Explorer
Why Ditching People-Pleasing Behaviour Is the Best Thing You Can Ever Do For Yourself OrlaK
3 Places to Submit Your Nonfiction Articles and Get Paid $400.00 to 2,500.00 an Article Pamela Kazmierczak
Creativity Cannot Be Caged Patricia Haddock
Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense, Part 1 Tomas Byrne
Security Resolutions For The New Year Trapper Sherwood
DESTRUCTION Nicole Barden
3 Investing Tips by This Amateur Noah Nelson
Consequences Nona Nicklin
Bristlecone Buddha Ulf Wolf
You Don’t Want to Know About Me ~ I Shatter Realities Lady Jhershierra
Six Reasons You Need a Goldendoodle Victoria Gregg
Smells Like Snow Victoria Ponte
Don’t Start Again Every New Year. Instead, Work On Completing What You’ve Already Started. Wellness Xplora
Animal Magick Wendi Lady
Who Are The Muses? Rose Malana
Gaseous — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
Hello — I’m Patrick OConnell Patrick OConnell
5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Move to the Big Island of Hawaii Sandra Pawula
Shock Your Internal Angry-Bird! 5 Things That’ll Make You Feel Good Sara Marium
The 8–8–8 Rule — To Live a Happy and Healthy Life Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
Why we should harness the Nuclear energy Tara Desai PhD
The Expendables William (Dollar Bill) Mersey
The End Of Antibiotics; The Rise Of Bacteria Paulo Laureano
The Art of Selective Underachievement Rory Cockshaw
When Will Smartness Come To Me? tarun bhatt
The Number One Blocker to Success Tavian Jean-Pierre
How to Steal The Mindset of Highly Successful People? Yousuf Rafi
Abel Brought the Best, Cain Brought Whatever Cathy Chapman, PhD
My Credit Card Hacked Again Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Action, Camera, Illumination! Britni Pepper
How Do You View Your Leisure Time? Bill Abbate
My First Article on Medium Illumination YouTube Coordinator
Two Potentially Life-Saving Articles About Your Health Julia E Hubbel
10 Life Lessons I Am Carrying Forward to 2022, and You Should Too Aakriti Hiteshi
Meet Dr Preeti Singh on YouTube ILLUMINATION
3 Valuable Lessons From Losing 20 Pounds in Three Months Carrie Kolar
This Passive Income Skill Can Enhance Writers’ Lifestyle Dr Mehmet Yildiz
New Year, New Variant Anita Sud
Men Are From Tinder, Women Are From Bumble. April Moons
10 Top Networking Mistakes To Avoid In Your Job Search Banji Alo
Bath Time Bec
Cyberbullying — A Form of Abuse that Often Goes Unchecked Benjamin Carter
Mental Health Disorders Should Not Be Treated Like an Underdog Bic Wonder
Sweet but Sad Brooke Ramey Nelson
5 Mistakes I Did as a Content Creator Aamir Kamal 🚀🚀🚀
Why We Anthropomorphize Things? Understanding the Cognitive Bias Alejandro Betancourt
1 Life-Changing Skill from The Best-Selling Book, Crucial Conversations. Anders Skagerberg, CFP®
My Golden Love Brooklyn Muse
Let Your Mind out in a Sea of Opportunities Presented by Uncertainty Buse ermen
What Is the First Sentient AI Going to Feel Like When It Wakes Up? Charlie Lukas
Are You Jealous Of Who Is Snob? Christina Sponias
12 Things you Do in your 20s and They are real achievements geozee
6 Reasons Why You Should Still Care About COVID Ines May
Born to Be — learning to let your child go to their great becoming Jackie Madden Haugh
Publishing, Scams, Good Manners, Blogging, Faith and Christianity Jacquelyn Lynn
In That Box Again Jade Willow
How I (and You) Defeat Writer’s Block John Teehan
The Arrival of Autumns Early Morning Light Joseph Lieungh
Simple Ways to Free Yourself From Watching, Reading, and Listening to the News 24/7. Christina Szeman
A Renewed Sense of Creative Energy Gerald Sturgill
Can Robots Really Take Over Us? Gokhan Yalcuk
How I Lost 75 LBS Haji
Why I Pulled My Book from Amazon KDP and Self-Publishing Elsewhere Crystal A. Walker
Laughter is the Answer Dave Smith
Three Tips to Eliminate Loose Skin Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How Successful Entrepreneurs Create Their Own Space in Their Market David Ferrers
Four Questions I Ask During a Stressful Conversation Dean Gee
Get Away From Your Phone: Are Phones Our New Gods? Destiny S. Harris
My Mom Hated Thrift Stores E. Katherine Kottaras
Understanding Titles of NHS Doctors Elizabeth Webster
Discover White Sand Beach In Malaysia, Truly Asia Elvie Lins❤️
How I made $60 per article on Upwork as a freelancer with zero experience Eduard Sebastian
3 Simple Ways To Get Your Way in a Company When You Are Not The Owner Eduardo Remolins
4 steps to solve every kind of problem Fabio Diolosa
3 Causes Behind Narcissism You Don’t Know Fahim chughtai
What Kind Of Craziness Is Going On With The COVID Pandemic? Floyd Mori
Alpha-Omega Metaverse Frank Ontario
Don’t Let Covid Dictate Your Life! Justin Stinnett
Light Within Kira Dawn
The Innocent Shuttle Energy of Push-hands Larry Nowicki
The Game-Changing Method To Remove Toxicity Out of Your Mind Letters from E.K.
She Is Jennifer Lawrence’s Character in Real-Life Lila Juno
Climb Little Monster
Who the Bloody Hell Listens to Basketball Games on the Radio? Lorrae — Loving My AUTISTRY
Death Is A Vital Part Of Life For Tiny Living Species. Maria Rattray
It’s Still Not Fair John Ross
To Forgive or Not Marketa Zvelebil
Undoing Mariam Ali
Do You Bring Your Whole Self to Work? Marissa Renee
The IRS Has a New $600 Rule for 2022 for All Gig Economy Workers Mark Hake
Social Media Can Make You Feel Superior Janice Eastman
The Fake Live Ghost Investigation That Scared the Shit Out of Millions Edward John
36 Ways I Improved Myself to Make Thousands of Dollars Self Employed Jason Aro
A man who shied away from his own fame !! Jayla Paul
How To Overcome Failure and Self-Doubt Jennifer Pierce
4 Tools To Help You Find Your Life’s Purpose. Jim McAulay🍁
The Purging Joan Didak
Playing the Devil’s Advocate Jodie Helm
How to Escape the Fear of Commitment John Cooper
Highly Paid DoorDash Engineers Have to Deliver Food, and They’re Not Having It Jesse Bramani
How to Show Up for Yourself When You Are Depressed Jessey Anthony
Unraveling the Biological Underpinnings of Psychedelics Ruben Bouma
How We Came to Make a Decision About the Vaccination of Our Child Sapna M
Where Have All Good Men Gone? Mila
Sattu Ki Puri — Weekend Special Minakshi Kumari
My Neighbor Scammed Me Out of $500 Missy Crystal
Should New Year’s Resolutions Still Be a Thing? Simona Cazanescu
How Can I Make Money Writing Short Stories? TechMintle | Passionate About Writing
Hot and Cold The Universe and Life
Is Inspired Work Meaningful Work? Marsha Hamby Savage
Are human beings facing the greatest challenge of his history? Maximus
It Is A Disservice to Yourself to Stay The Same Toyin Zuleiha
Witchcraft And How To Start Your Path Un-Traditional Mother
Which One Do You Read More — Physical Copies or eBooks? VRITANT
The Man Who Doesn’t Know What Year It Is. Wellness Xplora
I Heard the Birds Chirping Outside My Window Napoleon
My Perspectives to 20 Health Tips by WHO Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Learnings From Illness Utpal Kumar
Three Things I Learned from Betty White To Age Better Age Productively Verbieann Hardy
Three Things I Learned from Betty White To Age Better Age Productively
A personal tribute
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Pause After “How Are You?” Act Like You Wanna Know! MJ Adia
The Power of a Good Night’s Sleep Ms Fischer
5 Ways I “Faked” My Way To Success Naomi Boshari
5 Ways I “Faked” My Way To Success
Honestly, I think we’re all faking it most of the time
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Don’t shoot for the stars Nasar Karim
The Grass is Not Always Greener on the Other Side Rosa de Saron C.
Tiny Thinking Habits that Have a Huge Impact Rosa Diaz
How To Deal With Failure? Octopus Explorer
Foolproof Signs That Someone Is Deeply Upset With Their Life Ossiana Tepfenhart
13 Tech Freelance Writing Markets Pamela Kazmierczak
Grateful Though My Socks Are Wet paulmartincurry
Get Rid Of These Giants & Achieve Success This Year Pius Adejumobi
Suffering Earth Randy Shingler
Silver Fish — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
Let’s welcome the new writers who join us today.
Shaqib Akram, James Goodman, Nancy Oglesby Wellness, Sudarsan Karki-SuperSudar, This is Sabrina Nicole, BothSides, Julia Dennis, Blockchainerzz, Hassan Faheem.
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!
TheConchLife.com, Benazir Albashir, Dhruv Hegde, Modern Eremite, Pierre Matile, Ashley Hague, Tiffany Ventic, Emma Granha piati, 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, Pamela Oglesby, Michael Okafor, Wealthly, Ideas To Grow, Carlos Gonzalez, RAW, srinivasan Metta, Monomit Bhowmik, Julian Lawrence, Trey Natherson, Natalie Wilmet, Cynthia love❤️, 𝕭𝖆𝖉 🩸 𝕽𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖈.
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
7 Tips for Freelance Writers Dealing with Chronic Stress Effectively
What I Learned After Publishing 1,010 And Reading 100,000 Stories
Science-Based Therapeutic Value of Expressive Writing for Mental Health
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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Invitation: Join ILLUMINATION Gaming Publication as a Writer
Invitation to Write for ILLUMINATION on YouTube Publication
Publications by Our Writers on Medium
Updates from Euphoria
Invitation to ILLUMINATION YouTube Channel
Illumination Fiction Club
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