Editor’s Choice
Hand-Picked Articles #142
Chosen by the content curators of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium

Dear Readers and Writers,
We curated informative and engaging pieces from our experienced writers for your reading pleasure. Thank you for your time and meaningful engagement in these curated stories.
It is a pleasure for us to amplify the stories of our inspiring writers.
Writers in this selected collection are creative, engaging, and experienced contributors to ILLUMINATION. These stories cover several topics. You might find your favorite authors via a keyword search (Ctrl F).
Our writers are grateful for your valuable feedback and reactions to their stories shared in recent collections #139, #140, and #141 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.
You may check out introduction to 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 contributors daily and support their content.
Please explore and enjoy these great stories.

Curated Articles from ILLUMINATION Publications
Here Is How I Accelerated Fat Burning with Customizable Principles and Healthy Lifestyle Habits Dr Mehmet Yildiz
I Don’t Understand Dislikes Against Elon Musk. Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Australia Is the Best Place in the World to Live (If You like the Good Life) Tim Denning
Covid Virus Finally Infected Me Despite Intense Cautions. Illumination Gaming
There are Only 2 Ways to Live Your Life Dr. Sherry Y. Smith
A Journey Home Santosh Pandipati, MD
A Journey Home
Carl Sagan, James Bond & The Snow Leopard: Meditation on a Life Half-Lived
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4 Items Under $100 That Improved My Life Matt Lillywhite
How You Can Survive Civil Unrest Patrick OConnell
I Want Your Big, Deep Throbbing Talk — Keep That Small Talk Away from Me! Adam James
The Architecture of Gaming Disorder and How Can You Master the Game Alpi
How to Write Viral Articles and Blogs ILLUMINATION
Carbs, Protein and Fat — Is Eating More or Less of One Lead to Weight Gain? Ange Dim
Gratitude To Everyone Annelise Lords
My Christmas With COVID? Anthony Eichberger
Destiny. Do We Believe It? April Moons
A Marketing & Communication Guide For Introverted People — Misunderstandings And Solutions Bryan Dijkhuizen
How to Make Money On Simily (a Quick Hack) Burk
10 Surprising Things That I Learnt During the Pandemic Carol Price
The Secret to Finding Your Hidden Voice Chad Gates
Our Only Real Asset Was His Mind Christina Sophia
Hand-Picked Articles #138 ILLUMINATION Amplifier
The #1 Secret of Every Successful Love Relationship Dave Richards
How to Reduce Side-Effects of Fasting with Seven Proven Tips Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Why I’m Thrilled to Make a Massive Leap in 2022 David Brühlmann
You Don’t Understand America As Well As You Think You Do David Todd McCarty
Passion Trumps Like Destiny S. Harris
Why Engagement is Important in Sales Don Lee
Nobody Gives a Fat Rat’s Patootie About my Story Don Martin
Stop Making Lofty Goals For Yourself Elle Blooms
CJ’s Story: The Power and Failure of Modern Classroom Management Emily Kirkman
What You’re Not Expecting: Tarot Pick a Card Emmarie Hodge
Rooted In Something Different Evelin Mercedes
Do we Have any Alien DNA? Fit$
What Do You Do If Your Medium Stats Will Not Improve? Floyd Mori
The Secret to Startup Success is No Secret Fouad Sader
You Think You Own Your Property But You Don’t Frank T Bird
Hiding Blossom George Lamptey
How To Make Money Online Gokhan Yalcuk
How to Attract and Date High-Value Men Growth Lodge
Not Like Me Harry Stefanakis
Anti-vaxxers Are Sentencing Pets to Death Based on Ridiculous Claims Ines May
Why You Should Never Throw Away Silica Gel Packs Iris B. Stehn
Why You Should Never Throw Away Silica Gel Packs
Keep those corona test silica gel packs!
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Is Your Comfort Zone Coddling You? Jade Hadfield
I Have One Medium-Sized Word for 2022 James Beaufait
Do You Know Love? Jason Vu Nguyen
3 Ways an Article a Day Makes Profiting with Ease a Breeze Jeff the Content Coach
This Is Why Trust in a Monogamous Relationship Is Toxic Jessey Anthony
The Lesson Of The Cacti Joan Didak
Stop Chasing Gratitude Judy Walker
Before Responding to Criticism, Ask This One Question Kim Byrne
Bringing Trauma Into The Light Kim Kelly
The Greatest Birth Control That’s Specifically Designed For Men KL Simmons
Three Things You Need To Do To Create A Viral Medium Story Lena
We’re Human First Lilit A. Sargsyan
Nine Signs of ADHD You Might Not Have Heard Of Lily Hale
How Surviving Omicron in Spain Is A Blessing Compared to America Livia Dabs RN,MSc
13 Rituals To Practice For Continuing The Bonds With Your Loved Ones Who Have Passed On Lucy Crisetig
An Open Message To Young, Professional Women Intent On Climbing The STEM (Science, Technology… Maria Rattray
Writing with ProWritingAid (or Grammarly) Marie A. Rebelle
Five Events That Permanently Changed My Life In 2021 Michael Lim
Together, We Can Make It Happen Michele Thill
Sometimes You Need Bad Days To Help You Truly Appreciate The Good Ones Mike Lewis
I Was Born Tired So I Can Learn How To Rest Mila
Obviously, The Universe Is Telling Me To Stop Eating So Much Misty Rae
Obviously, The Universe Is Telling Me To Stop Eating So Much
Judging By The Price of Food
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Shouldn’t COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturers Share Their Technologies With the World? Mukundarajan V N
Why Hip Fracture is a Deadly Threat Scott Younkin
Listen To Yourself And You Will Find Your Destiny Shameem Anwar
I Accidentally Threw Cash in the Trash: You Can Learn From My Mistake Shannon Piérre
Population Bomb, Fourth Turning, Bunk Sharon Johnson
I’m Still Banging The Pan Lids for Front-Line Workers Sheldon Clay
Why You Should Stop Using the Number 7 Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
How Did I Manage the Campaign Viewed by 17,000 Readers on LinkedIn? Mustafa Pekcandanoğlu
Serendipity Nicola POWYS
Broken Thoughts NIDAA
The Importance Of A Sustainable Supply Chain Nora
5 Ways to Present Your Ideas with Conviction Patricia Haddock
The Power of Therapeutic Horse Riding for Humans Paul Myers MBA
Grateful Though It’s One Big Storm paulmartincurry
We are closer to finding aliens! But do we want to? Paulo Laureano
7 Unique Ways You Can Become A Problem Solver Pius Adejumobi
My Journey as a Minimalist Prasanniya
How to Find the Perfect Wife (According to Your Mom) Qasim Adam
Transformation Tuesday — Thembisa’s Transformation Robert Brace
I’d Like a Stay-at-Home Husband So I Can Focus on My Writing Career Rosalind Pagan
I Built My House On Quicksand Roxy Wright
Learn the Hidden Dangers of Being an Empath and How to Protect Yourself T Mann
What is Co-dependency? tarun bhatt
If You Are a Serious Poet, Stop Writing Poetry Online Tarun Gupta
Three Tips to Eliminate Insulin Resistance and Shrink Waistline Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Our Space Journey, part 16 The Universe and Life
With Heated Storage, You Can Weather Any Storm Tree Langdon
Traveling to Hawaii during Covid TheTravelAgents
Bertil’s Belly Uzi Landsmann
The Timeless Realm Of Ancestral Healing Vickie Trancho
Beyond The Void Walter Pop Matthews IV
Gone Are Days of Being a Top Writer Napoleon
Taking care of my senior dog is harder now than when she was a puppy. Y. Vue
Do Self-Made Millionaires Really Exist? Yancy Dennis
How to Live A Life of No Regret You, Me and Happiness
The Perfect One Zahra Ali
Updates and Highlights from Euphoria Publication on Medium 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
Idealism is Not Fantasy Jodie Helm
Fear Not: Dispelling Worry and Concern Blair Abee
Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It Nicole Linke
Books Challenge Your Critical Thinking If You Choose The Right Ones Alicia Domínguez
Would you like to increase the chance of writing viral articles and blogs in 2022? Illumination YouTube Coordinator
Curly Girls America Zed⚡
Listening Hard to Write Well Amy L. Bernstein
Why Interval Training Beats Steady-State Cardio for Faster Fat Loss Results Ange Dim
Nope, I Don’t Want To Read Your Writing Anna Klawitter
Sex & Ego- Is it the Destruction of Man? Annelise Lords
One Question to End Feeling Stuck April Moons
Those Mind Games They Tend To Play Auracles by MJ
Trust Your Gut Barry Chaffee
I Love How Children Own Their Farts Bhavna Narula
What I, a Microsoft employee, feel about the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Binlong Li
To Tag or Not to Tag Bob Jasper
I Created A Twitter List With Online Writers Bryan Dijkhuizen
5 Quick Minimal Interior Design Tips Burk
Decisive Mindset is What You Need to Succeed in This *New Year* Carlos Jeronimo
Why I Talk To My Cat Maybe You Should Too Chasing Dreams
Amazon KDP vs. Draft2Digital Crystal A. Walker
True Colours Danielle Ramaekers
I Make My Atheist Children Say Grace At The Dinner Table Delilah Brass
Articles On Goals By Destiny S. Harris Destiny S. Harris
The Only Piece of Advice I Wish My Parents Had Given Me Diana C.
Like my mother-in-law always told me Don Martin
How To Support A Loved One With Diabetes Doug Timberlake
How I’m Keeping my New Year Resolution Promises to Myself. Elizabeth Loberg
Your Relationship With Food Might Be Toxic Elle Blooms
Truism Dr. Fatima Imam
Management Fix Eduardo Espinheira
How Your Life Could Look Like if You Could Be Technologically Savvy Emmanuel A. Anderson
The Pataphysics Of The Metaverse Erik Reich, DC
Ten Types of Toxic People You Should Avoid in Life Fahim chughtai
Imagine You Can Curse People Fahri Karakas
What Is Causing The Great Resignation? Flavio Aliberti
Content That Sells Francesco Rizzuto
Daily Physical & Emotional/Spiritual Protection Frank Ontario
The Return of Jesus May Have Logistical Issues Frank T Bird
How Women and Men Do Think Differently Gokhan Yalcuk
Want To Re-structure Your Life Or Continue To Stand In Your Own Way? Gregory Reece-Smith
The Youngest Serial Killer in American History Growth Lodge
Reincarnation Harry Hogg
Silence Stillness Spaciousness Harry Stefanakis
The Problem With Equals In Python Jim McAulay🍁
Seven Super Foods That Speed Recovery John Cunningham
Dealing With Excess Treasure in Dungeons and Dragons John Teehan
The Reason I get Commended for my Business Innovations and Work in Mental Health and Always Will Joshua J. Lyon
The mysticism of the Irish Language Heber Rowan
5 Brainless Habits That Make Your Life Miserable Israrkhan
I’m Done Being a “Liberal” and Why That Gives Me Hope for the World Jacqueline Jannotta
Jeans and Pizza Won’t Pay My Bills Jade M.
My Reflections From The Past Year That You May Find Useful James Ssekamatte
How a Narcissist Manipulates You Jennifer March, MS
Will AI Steal Your Job? Jennifer Smith
Three Foods I Ditched to Tighten Saggy Belly Fat Jessey Anthony
Depression Is Not the Result of “Faulty Brain Chemistry” Julia Blum
A SHOCKING WOKE MOMENT AT BUFFALO WILD WINGS. JULIAN GRACIANO NUNEZ
3 Steps To Take Before You Even Think About Going On a Date! Justin Stinnett
Within 7 Days, 15 Writers Purchased My Online Course And I’m Fully Booked Kristina God
Sometimes I Just Need a Ventilator Laura Culberg- Welcoming Opposites
3 Easy Steps to Build A Truly Powerful Mindset Letters from E.K.
12 Simple Things You Should Do Everyday Live Love Quiz
HAES Should be SAES: Strive At Every Size Lorrae - Loving My AUTISTRY
White Window Mahgol J
Did You Know Medium Isn’t Facebook? Mandy McElroy
3 Simple Ways To Boost Confidence Niharika Chhabra
When there is no ME in “ME” Time, Then it is not “ME” Time. Nishith Goyal
27126 Days Traveled — What’s Ahead? Øivind H. Solheim
Make Hundreds of Dollars Writing For These Websites Pamela Kazmierczak
5 Secrets That Will Help the Man of Your Dreams Fall Head Over Heels for You Qasim Adam
I Tried Intermittent Fasting for a Month and Here is My Experience and Results Rashida Nasrin Sucky
This Epidemic of Narcissism must be Exposed for the Danger that it is to Humanity Markus Scorelius
Discovering my dream job through creating Matan Valdman
Why don’t new generations seem to appreciate what they have? Maximus
How Mindfulness Meditation Can Help Us Deal With Difficult Emotions Megan Desjarlais
3 Quick Tips From My Therapist to Relieve Anxiety and Get On With Your Day Murtaza Ali
Goodbye Bench Press Nasar Karim
When It Comes To Managing Your Weight Your BMR Is Far More Useful Than Your BMI Nathalie Clair
Passage Of Time Nicole Barden
How To Make Money Online Without Any Investment In 2022 Richard Appiah
Does Truth Really Matter in the End? Roo Benjamin
Harvesting Greens — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
This Fruit Has Mindblowing Health Benefits Sara Moton
Simily: Is It Worth It? Shamar M
Does Dressing Up Our Stories Suppress Our Unique Gifts? Shashi Sastry
3 Steps to Protect your Critical Inventions in 2022 Steve Sponseller
This is the way we sabotage our chance to be heard Story Taller
Our Local Star The Universe and Life
Experiment Earth Ulf Wolf
The NFL, Tom Brady, and Desperation Wes Putnam
“A Lot Of Words Were Took Out Of Substance” William (Dollar Bill) Mersey
Here Is How I Defeated Chronic Inflammation via 9 Lifestyle Habits. Dr Mehmet Yildiz
5 Habits of People Who Reject Elon Musk Culture Tim Denning
Reasons Why My (European) Husband and I Will Eventually Leave America Anastasia Frugaard
4 Items Under $100 That Improved My Life Matt Lillywhite
The Writing Advice Articles Never Tell You the Soul-Crushing Side of Writing for A Living Jennifer Geer
Genesis: The Story of the Victors Cathy Chapman, PhD
Insightful Life Lessons from Personal Stories Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Ever Wonder Why We All Think So Many Useless, Involuntary Thoughts? David Gerken
Let’s welcome the new writers who join us today.
Muhammad Usman, Olivia F, Wambui Njuguna, Azhar Shah, Marianne Simon, mind.bubble, Mark Sanford, Ph.D., Fatima Naveed, Jan Carroza, Vee H, Subham Subedi, Chris Pick, Julianna, Kalsoom A., Kimberly Carlson Aesara, Musunuru Sharmila, Assumpta, Arslan Sheraz, Azhar Shah, Elizabeth Raley, Katarzyna Portka, Musunuru Sharmila, Ayush Jain.
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!
Dhali GURU, Mary Shambro, Jay Stories, Caleb Weingarten, Ronas IT, Tim Carden, Neil Nkoyock, Anna Murphy, Arittro, The Passive Monk — Wealth & Masculinity, Matt Revnew, Inu Etc, Aced Lifestyle, Christina Costello, Abhishek Sainani, Daphne Peña, Anwesha Mishra, Juan Cienfuegos, Nadeem Aftab, Akhtar Ali, Krishna Patel, Ben Roland, Mikey Pasagui, Jota Oliveira, Theresa, Catherine McNally, Subham Subedi, Mrunalini Udavant, Jackie Olsen, Liza Carver, Eliofotos Orfanou, keyda, ax, Sundar Balamurugan, Alice Christine, Vignesh RS, Hassan Faheem, Shaqib Akram, James Goodman, Nancy Oglesby Wellness, Sudarsan Karki-SuperSudar, This is Sabrina Nicole, BothSides, Julia Dennis, Blockchainerzz, Hassan Faheem, 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
Onboarding Pack for New Writers
New writers, please read this pack before submitting your stories.
Guiding Posts on our Publications
Publication-related stories can be accessed via this collection.
Introducing Writers Bios
Curated Writer Bios
Curated Writer Bios
Learn about contributing writers of ILLUMINATION written by their pen
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Meet Editors of Our Publications
Collection of Editor Bios
Invitation to Write for ILLUMINATION on YouTube Publication
Invitation: Join ILLUMINATION Gaming Publication as a Writer
Publications by Our Writers on Medium
Why Writers Need Personal Publications
Updates from Euphoria
I Write about Health as It Matters.
Invitation to ILLUMINATION YouTube Channel
Illumination Fiction Club
Invitation to Potential Writers
If you wish to join Illumination Integration publications, please send a request via this link.
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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.
As our chief editor, Dr Mehmet Yildiz says “opportunities are endless on this platform”.