When the tests are done and the therapies have been administered, people often feel a need to do something to help the healing. Stop! First, find out whether what you plan to do will help or harm.
As an analogy, after you prepared cake batter and put it in the oven, you need to wait. Don’t try to “help” by turning up the heat or opening the door to check it by touching to top. While you are doing “nothing,” very active chemical processes are transforming sticky, wet batter into a light, moist cake.
Healthy Survivors honor the wisdom of the body. They refrain from jeopardizing recovery with unnecessary or potentially harmful interventions—no matter how well intentioned. When interventions are not required for healing, “doing nothing” is NOT doing nothing.
