Editor’s Choice
Hand-Picked Articles #252
Chosen by the content curators of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium for avid readers

Dear Readers and Writers,
Today, we selected interesting and informative stories from our curated collections written by experienced contributors of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium.
This new collection covers unique and eclectic pieces with various writing styles. We included as many topics as possible when selecting these stories from the repositories.
Our goal is to help writers grow their audience by introducing them to avid readers on Medium and other platforms while offering enjoyable stories to interested readers. We believe you will find valuable stories in this collection.
Thank you for supporting and engaging with these inspiring contributors’ stories and sharing them.
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Here’s the latest collection from ILLUMINATION editors.
Aiden (Illumination Gaming) created the first curated list from our new publication, Illumination Gaming.
Here is our previous collection for those who missed it.
Attention New writers: Please note that we introduce our new writers at the end of the post. Let’s give them a warm welcome and explore their stories. Soon they might be regular contributors to these curated collections. We noticed that the writers added yesterday did not take place due to a glitch so we added them again. We also had a few identical names so if your account was added unintentionally you can remove yourself. There is no obligation from our end.
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Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today
Today, we curated informative and engaging stories, mainly from ILLUMINATION and a few from our other publications as samples.

Curated Articles from ILLUMINATION Publications
7 Health and Fitness Tests You Can Do on Your Own Daily Dr Mehmet Yildiz
What I Learned Working in Finance for 10+ Years Tim Denning
My Favorite Meditation Cue Also Helps Bigly in My Everyday Life David Gerken
Attract the Life You Want Ayodeji Awosika
6 Lessons We All Can Learn From Kylie Jenner Sinem Günel
50 (American) Things I’m Grateful For This Thanksgiving Anastasia Frugaard
Medical Errors Are Preventable, But Not The Way You Think Dr. ADAM TABRIZ
How Do You Subconsciously Crave a Narcissist’s Shaming and Abuse? Melissa Kalt, MD
Mind as a Complex Adaptive System. Dr John Frederick Rose
Politics, Propaganda, Pollution, and Profits Make Us Ill, Let’s Look At Alternatives Christyl Rivers, Phd.
Racism in Texas: They Destroyed the High School Records of Black People Cathy Chapman, PhD
As the Ukrainian crisis deepens, how do Europeans feel? Tara Desai PhD
Try Self-Compassion Cedric Johnson, PhD
Create Your Life Pattern and Thrive Mark Sanford, Ph.D.
From The Editor’s Desk: A Warm Welcome To All New Writers ‘At Readers Hope’ Dr. Preeti Singh
Resiliency and Prevention Dr. Gabriella Korosi
Organisational Culture Made Simple Dr Michael Heng
I’ve published 188 articles, 95% curated and not a single Top Writer Martha Manning, Ph.D.
5 Defining Qualities of People Who Truly Embrace Life — and Love Every Moment of It! Kristie Leong M.D.
8 Brain Damaging Habits to Quit Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
8 Ways How Reading Makes You Healthier And Happier Livia Dabs RN,MSc
Netflix May Be Making Their First PC Game Aiden (Illumination Gaming)
Do What You Want Effortlessly Bill Abbate
Why Black People Are On Constant Alert, Always Rebecca Stevens A.
Why Living Without Kim Kardashian Might Be Better for Your Mental Health George J. Ziogas
How much Medium paid me for my most viral article Jenn Leach
5 Tricks Proven to Burn Body Fat You Should Copy Jessey Anthony
What Happens Now That the Electoral College Confirmed Biden’s Win Yet Again? Jennifer Geer
Liking Tim Denning Joe Luca
The Relationship Link Between Love and Our Romantic Relationships: A Simply Told Story Jessica Lyon & Joshua J. Lyon, BSQP, CNP (J & J)
I Forgive You Joe Rogan Alshane Brown
When You Want Flat, Not Flatulent Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles
3 Simple Steps on how I overcame Seasonal Affective Disorder Amy Fujisaki
The Ultimate Challenge Antonis Iliakis
I Got BANNED For This! Balancing Act
Can Writing Be its Own Reward? Benjamin Carter
What’s the future of Zuckerberg’s Metaverse? Bogdan Mtn
Presidential Wisdom for You on This Presidents’ Day Brian Tubbs
Wind… Brooklyn Muse
Before You Start Your First Business Test Your Skills With A Plant First! Caryn Leach-Smith
What I Learned From My Two Dads and Three Moms Chad Gates
How You Can Make Easy Changes That Will Improve Your Life Chasing Dreams
Can a Medium Writer Also be a Top Writer? Don Martin
The Family Reached Out For Help Before Their Deaths Floyd Mori
Mustafa, the child of the photo-symbol of the Syrian drama, operated Francesco Carrubba
I’m The Last Person To Come To For Financial Advice Gerald Sturgill
15 Lessons I Learned From Elders That Totally Changed The Way I See Life Gokhan Yalcuk
What To Expect When You Adopt A Shelter Pet Jade Augustine
When Will We Listen and Learn? Janet Mary Cobb (she/her)
BLM Founder Blocked Me For Calling Her Out For Fraud Jaron Mays
Hey Results Producers, Why Aren’t You Producing Required Results? Jeannette Seibly
When people are cruel Jenny Lane
Take Advantage of Time & Compound Interest Will Take Care of You Julius Evans
In Search For Meaning of Success Labman Perspectives
How 2 Youtubers Drugged Me With a Reading Addiction Larenzo
What Is Blue Butterfly Pea Tea, and Can It Support Weight Loss? Lisa Manzer
Some Words of Melancholic Wisdom for My Fellow Writer Cows Markus Scorelius
I Wish People Would Shut Up Melissa Marietta
The Philosophy in Politics Michael Koy
Analysis: Comparison Obama and Trump Administration Mustafa Pekcandanoğlu
The gorgeous man and intermittent reinforcement Nanna
Podcasting: Where People are Getting Their News Nick Stockton
How Not to Be Perfect Noran Azmy
How with Only 300 Views I Was Able to Earn 10 Dollars Patricia Vilchez
So you want to get tons of eyeballs on your blog or website? Patrick OConnell
Here’s Why I Choose Ketosis as a Lifestyle Habit. Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Make Good Money With These Work-Anywhere Ideas Pius Adejumobi
Top Ten Modern Luxuries I Can’t Live Without PS
Raise Your Hands For The ‘Be Weird’ Revolution Rafay Hiraj
The true path to Self-Love, and self-confidence Raphaël Reiter
How To Earn $100 Per Day In Passive Income On Complete Autopilot Richard Appiah
3 Things You Must Do Before You Leave Planet Earth. Richard Landeau
Things We Will Always Regret Buying Rosa Diaz
Spurt of Lava — a Poem Roxanne Barbour
What an Amazing Goal for Trauma Healing Sean F Corbin
With Mahmood & Blanco’s “Brividi,” Italy Stands Poised to Repeat: Can They Hold On? Sibca Awan
Why Time Doesn’t Matter To You At All Suzan Dalia
What I Can’t Stand About Some “Strong Personality” Types Tim Dahi
The powerful wisdom of Tecumseh Tony Leo
Remarkable Health Benefits of the Most Researched Fitness Supplement Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Concerning Wolves Ulf Wolf
Turning Tragedy Into Power Vanessa Gallman
Olympic Games Retrospective William (Dollar Bill) Mersey
Are We Too Sensitive As Black People? Zahruja J
Life Is Beautiful, but We Are Not Always Able to See It Øivind H. Solheim
How To Get Paid To Write Short Stories Adam Pearson
Less Talk, More Listen Dave Smith
These 20 Lifestyle Habits Refined and Sharpened My Mind As I Aged. Dr Mehmet Yildiz
8 Best Rated Movies Of All Time Calum James
Why Elon Musk Sold His Bitcoin Shares Out of Blue Aiden (Illumination Gaming)
6 Benefits to Looking Silly in Public Lewis Jones
Quick And Powerful Ways To Simplify Your Life In 2022 Hidayatullah
Five Powerful Tools to Regulate Emotions & Knock Chronic Stress Dr Mehmet Yildiz
I Attended My First Cacao Ceremony, and Let Me Tell You, It Was Not What I Expected. Ale Conrado Carcasona
100 Days of Writing: Day 20 — Getting to 100 Followers Alex Philippe
I Was always a good Employee that Gave hundred and ten percent to my Employer Lawson Wallace
Who is Amy Sea’s Boyfriend? Amy Sea
OH, CANADA! Anna Marques
Apple’s New macOS Ventura Is A Delight And A Productivity Booster Jussi Luukkonen, MBA
Sharing My Gift of Creativity Annelise Lords
“Fat Makes You Fat — Eating The Right Diet Alone Won’t Lead To Weight Loss” Rob Hourmont
The Most Beautiful & Relaxing Gaming App I’ve Ever Played Gareth Willey
Outlook — My Inbox Zero strategy Nuno Campos
I logged off social media for two days. ASHLEY CARINO 🌻
I logged off social media for two days
I needed a mental break from being on social media
medium.com
No, I Don’t Want to Make Money Assumpta Nalubowa
Newsbreak Needs To Fix Their Issues Bryan Dijkhuizen
Newsbreak Needs To Fix Their Issues
Many things to solve to remain attractive for writers
medium.com
“Being a Writer Is Easy!” Catrina Cowart
Do You Want To Learn About North American Tundra Swans? Chasing Dreams
The Frozen Heart Cinis Viatorem
Roadside Cross CMad Poet
The View From The Cheap Seats Denise Hedley
Should You Live With Your Partner Or Separately Destiny S. Harris
The Only Reason I Use Social Media is Because it’s Free Marketing Don Sabado
Why Meditation Isn’t A Tool Filip Cabra Makowski
6 Style Mistakes Older Men Make Trying to Look Younger Destiny Femi
I’m a Novice Writer Harry Hogg
These 7 Types Of Food Are Scientifically Proven To Benefit Reverse Aging Hello100
Channeling My Fair Lady: I Want To Write All Night, I Want to Write All Night Janice Macdonald
Life Is A Game Of Russian Roulette Jason Vu Nguyen
Nan Hauser and Her Altruistic Whale Jennifer Pierce
My Childhood Street Michael L Butler
OpenSea NFT Heist Is Only the Beginning Napoleon
The LBJ Presidential Tapes: Reliving History in the First Person Nick Stockton
Broken Thoughts NIDAA
What You Ought to Know About Color Depositing Conditioners Nkeonye Judith Izuka-Aguocha
Self-Improvement Starts With The Way You Think AKA Your Mentality! Deon Christie
Serious About Copywriting and Content Creation. Create a Swipe File. Nova Richards🪐
Freelance Writing — 38 Writing Calls For Submissions (as of 02/21/22) — Get Paid For Your… Pamela Kazmierczak
I am betting my money on these 2 projects Parash Sharma
Re-wilding Myself Salima Saxton
Hanging In an Old House Paul Coogan
This is the most underrated Side Hustle Peter White
How To Make $100 Per Day Online Simply By Copying And Pasting Richard Appiah
3 Lessons Learned from Quitting a $120,000 Job to Help Others Achieve Financial Success on YouTube John Adam Ledford
Decision Fatigue: Not so known enemy of personal productivity. Kaushik Trivedi
How to Study Japanese? Kevin Vogel
Black Women, We Need to Stop Coddling Black Men Khadejah
One Thing Most People Don’t Take Seriously For A Good Night’s Sleep KL Simmons
What Is Your Belief About Money? Lanu Pitan
How to Confront and Conquer Shyness Part 2 Leonard Tillerman
Sunny Perspective Little Monster
Easy Steps to Safely Access Dark Web in 10 Minutes — Finally on the Internet! Amit Biwaal
How cheap and joyful marketing can make you rich MarkfromBoston
Strength of my Father Mary Louisa Cappelli
How to Succeed as an Introvert Running an Online Business from Home Melissa Herb
3 Simple Ways To Get To Know Yourself Better. Richard Landeau
Why don’t you get follow back? Saba Rahman
Five shifts that occur when you practice Buddhism Sapna M
Humanity is Most Civilised in This Country! Shashi Sastry
The Best Relationship Book I Have Ever Read Story Taller
Life and Death 1 Tomas Byrne
Spring Ulf Wolf
Medium wants me to have more than 100 followers by March 2. Here’s my plan. Vicky Hui
Trick or Treat Zachary Seda
Your Passion Is Hidden in Your Strengths Tamil
It is Ticking… Brooklyn Muse
Managing Time Isn’t the Best Way to Produce More and Better Results Dr Mehmet Yildiz
The Winds of Change Are Blowing janny’s heart
The 4-Step Process to Practically Transform Your Pain and Adversity Into Strength That’ll Forever… Zachary Minott
Do You Want to Excel in Social Media? Don’t Do That — Do This Instead. Christian Soschner
No Boundaries Johnson James G Brennan
The One Quote that You Need to Live By to Have a Great Year Tom Handy
The Secret Of Getting Through Today Holly Kellums
5 Weird Wingmen of Santa from Around the World Denise Shelton
Living in a Chroma Robert Trakofler
Living in a Chroma
Experimental free verse poem self image, self esteem, rape, resolution
medium.com
Why Peter Dinklage Will Be the Ultimate Toxic Avenger Tim Ebl
Are You Able To Pay Attention? Randy Wolken
There Is Hope for Ending Cruelty Towards Immigrants Penofgold
5 Ways to Achieve and Live the Life You Desire Emmanuel A. Anderson
A little girl suddenly lost her mother to a car accident. Myriam Ben Salem
The Movies Are Getting Better Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh
You’re Angry. I’m Pleased. Here’s How To Mine Your Rage For Its Evolutionary Gifts. Roxana Bouwer
Shall I Put These Feelings Into Words Jude C. Ifeanyi
Silent night — lonely night? Christmas alone does not have to be lonely Florian Hoffmann
Let’s Drop Our COVID-19 Weapons Kristy Lynn
Fiction Patrick M. Ohana
The Night The Phones Wouldn’t Stop Ringing Brian Dickens Barrabee
Indian School Teacher makes History by Sharing Half of Global Teacher Prize Money, $1 Million… Kavish Kamat (KK)
3 Incredibly Simple and Effective Ways to Boost Your Writing Success Dawn Bevier
5 Quotes From Dalai Lama That Will Change Your Perspective Kristina Segarra
Turn a Victim Narrative into Success Marjorie J McDonald
How to Develop Extraordinary Behaviors in the Next 3 Weeks Godofredo Rojas
The Daruma Douglas Pilarski
Six Tips to Reverse Insulin Resistance, Lose Fat, and Stay Healthy Dr Mehmet Yildiz
ILLUMINATION editors introduced Annelise Lords by interviewing her. Please enjoy this great interview. We will be interviewing more writers soon and them to this collection.
Featured Writer Profiles
We included some sample stories from their collections. Please explore and enjoy their engaging pieces. They are regular contributors to Illumination.
Meet Jussi Luukkonen, MBA on Medium
Senior editor of Illumination Integrated Publications
medium.com
Thank you for reading these profiles and exploring their stories.
Let’s welcome the new writers who join us today.
Julia Kors, Nevena Pascaleva, Sagrika Oberoi, Blake Baldwin, Libby Walkup.
Let’s also please give a warm welcome to recently joined writers. Some of them have already posted their first articles.
Thank you for supporting these new writers’ content. We keep their profiles for a few days in these collections to introduce you.
Peace Elohor Amiaka, Cynthia Charleen Alexander, Valorie Lasley, Mikaela Bolker, Dayo Akinrinade, Rohit Veryani, Victoria Taylor, Yogesh Haribhau Kulkarni, Supreeta Arya, Robin Sherk, Tejaswini Katreddy, The Good Habit Coach, Roman Filo, Neil S, Charlotte H, Mohan Chellaswami, John Leung, Anne the Vegan, Dennis Hester, Bella Rose, Harsh N, Mark Vassilevskiy, Roman Filo, Mark Mahon, Jack Bohannan, Sekhar M. K., Narin Narula, Alfredo A. Pardo, Vivek Sinha, Sebastián Villafuerte, Ken Williams, shannon cb, shannon cb, E.I. Sultan, Blanche Durie, Savannah Carreno, Mihaela Roman, Ernestina, The Layman Speaks, Jennifer Pierce, Building Blocks, Jordan S, Danielle Morsberger, Akemi Sagawa, G. Hobson Goff III, Ross McWaters, Annalisa Filippi, Ross McWaters, Annalisa Filippi, Lisa Renard-Spicer, Rosie Stott, Just Jake, Agarwalpurav, Matthew Curtin, Dawn Ulmer, Stephenie Magister ✨
The key point for new contributors is to review the onboarding pack, as it includes publication-specific information for a smooth transition. We 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 the rejection of stories.
ILLUMINATION provided guidance to new writers on collection #133.
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.
We accepts both draft and self-published stories. However, 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 Published 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
Essential Checklist for Writers and Bloggers
How to Write Content Guaranteed to Get Views and Reads
Starter Kit for Writers of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications
7 Tips for Freelance Writers Dealing with Chronic Stress Effectively
What I Learned After Publishing 1,010 And Reading 100,000 Stories
The Joy of Selling 1,000+ Books In A Month With Minimal Investment
Science-Based Therapeutic Value of Expressive Writing for Mental Health
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.
Meet Editors of Our Publications
Collection of Editor Bios
Introducing Writers Bios
Curated Writer Bios
Curated Writer Bios
Learn about contributing writers of ILLUMINATION written by their pen
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Updates from Euphoria by Dr Yildiz, owner of our publications
I Write about Health as It Matters.
Invitation to ILLUMINATION YouTube Channel
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
Illumination Fiction Club
Invitation to Potential Writers
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