177: Yes To Life Show with Robin Daly MBE and guest Kathy Adams177: Yes To Life Show with Robin Daly MBE and guest Kathy Adams
UK Health Radio Podcast
Host Robin Daly talks with Kathy Adams about Emotional Freedom Technique in integrative cancer care, from evidence-based tapping for pain and PTSD to deeper work with trauma and ancestral patterns. The conversation also touches on ritual, spirituality and feeling part of a wider web of life during serious illness.
44:57•18 Jun 2026
Tapping Into Healing: EFT, Cancer Care and the Web of Life
Episode Overview
- EFT can be a simple self-help tool for immediate anxiety relief or a structured clinical approach for clearing deeper trauma and memories.
- Research, including randomised controlled trials and brain imaging, suggests EFT can reduce anxiety, depression, PTSD symptoms and pain.
- Tapping may ease cancer-related pain by releasing the emotional tension that amplifies physical sensations and helping people feel more in control.
- PTSD linked to a cancer diagnosis can show up as persistent anxiety, flashbacks, nightmares and strong reactions to medical settings, and can be addressed gently with EFT.
- Ritual, ceremony and a sense of connection to a wider "web of life" can offer additional emotional and spiritual support during serious illness.
“"What is it to be fully human? To live connected to the earth, to connect to our hearts, and part of the web of life."”
Curious about how others manage their emotional load alongside serious illness? This Yes To Life Show episode on UK Health Radio brings together host Robin Daly and returning guest Kathy Adams to talk about Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) in a way that's both grounded in research and very human.
Kathy, who has a background in nursing and homeopathy and now leads EFT workshops, explains how tapping moved from being seen as a quirky self-help tool to a method with a growing evidence base. She talks through randomised controlled trials and brain scans showing shifts in anxiety, depression, PTSD and pain, while keeping it all in plain language.
As she puts it, "EFT is simple, but it's actually also profound." You'll hear how EFT ranges from quick, self-applied tapping to help with scan nerves or waiting-room anxiety, through to structured clinical EFT that works with trauma and "memory reconsolidation". Kathy shares examples from her work with people affected by cancer, including using tapping to ease back pain and reduce the panic that often makes pain worse. The conversation then widens into the emotional and spiritual side of healing.
Kathy talks about ancestral trauma, epigenetics, and those moments when buried memories and meanings bubble up during tapping sessions. She and Robin also chat about PTSD after a cancer diagnosis, what signs to look out for, and how gently "telling the story" while tapping can soften the charge around difficult experiences. Things take a more soulful turn as they discuss ritual, ceremony and feeling part of a wider "web of life".
From lighting a candle before sessions to greeting the elements, Kathy shares how a relationship with something greater can bring comfort, awe and a deeper sense of being supported. If you're living with illness, pain, anxiety or just a sense that there must be more to healing than tablets and test results, this conversation might give you fresh questions to sit with: what would it mean for you to feel less alone in your own body and story?
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