Update on Weekly Links

ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

You might have noticed that the past couple of weeks, I’ve posted a collection of links from various places as a post here. It’s actually an automated post, based on things I’ve seen around the web and wanted to share. A couple of notes about this:

1. Linking to something doesn’t necessarily mean an endorsement or recommendation. Typically, it’s something interesting that I think some of you might get something out of. Be it an article, a blog post, or a resource that someone suggested to me, my linking to it simply means, “hey I saw this and it might be interesting to think about”.

2. The links actually create a way for me to share some of the many, many things people send me through email, on Twitter, Facebook, or other places. Frankly, I get quite a lot of messages asking me to share this or that, or review a book, etc. I simply don’t have time to look at all of them, let alone respond to each and every one or write a blog post about each one too. This way, I can at least provide a link when that’s all I have time to do.

So, I hope the weekly link posts can provide some interesting things for folks to check out, but as with anything else, be careful out there. Use what is helpful for you in your healing, feel free to ignore the rest!

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