Overcoming Cancer - Peggy Ployhar

welcome back to another episode of

Christian Natural Health today I'm

excited to have Peggy plar with us pegy

is the sped homeschool founder and CEO

an organization that empowers families

to home educate diverse Learners she's

also the owner of Eternal aerial arts

where she teaches aerial arts classes

and coaches a student performance team

Peggy's a speaker aerial performer

podcaster author breast cancer survivor

and 19-year retired homeschool veteran

she and her husband Doug live in League

City Texas and enjoy paddle boarding

hiking and camping in their classic

Airstream welcome Peggy thanks for

joining us thank you I am excited to be

here and just thankful that you um are

having me on your show so today we you

want to to kind of get your story out

there as far as your process with breast

cancer and how you dealt with that so

first like let's back us up and tell us

story it and it was crazy you know I I'm

I've always kind of more been more into

Natural Health so I kind of avoided the

mammogram type of thing and found a lump

and you know it's like oh goodness what

is this and um at the same time my

husband's going you really need to we

really need to prep there's something

going on in China and I'm like okay and

so actually I was diagnosed with cancer

the same week that everything shut down

it was just insane and so here you know

everybody's saying stay home stay away

from the hospital hospitals and they're

saying come in and you if you don't do

what we we tell you you're going to do

you're going to die you know I'm that

was that was this pressure that was on

me when I was diagnosed yeah oh my gosh

okay so that was the first year of the

lockdowns and or the at the first week

of the lockdowns and what was the

progression from there like what were

they telling you to do and what did you

UL choosing um so surgery was shut down

of course and and so then they're

they're telling me I need to you know

get on this medication that I need to

you know to to make sure that my

hormones are stopping um it was a um

estrogen progesterone fed cancer and um

and I just felt so much fear based on

everything they were telling me and I'm

like this is not God God is not you know

about fear and um and so I just I really

felt like I just needed to find

something else and a very good friend of

mine was um has gone to had gone to a

natural doctor that both had a PhD as

well as did um more natural um

treatments but had a cancer um Center as

well and she's like you need to go to

them and so I just did a televisit and

started looking at alternate options and

just trying to take in as much

information as I could without being

overloaded at the same time yeah but

yeah yeah and so to how much of a role

did prayer play in your press huge

because I you just couldn't give in to

fear and yet you didn't you know it was

an area I had no expertise in you know

and it was like okay there's there's

something to be found out from this I

knew that my grandmother had the same

cancer actually same breast everything

two of my cousins also so there was

something family oriented going on and

um and my biggest prayer was God I have

a daughter what do I need to know what

does she need to know so this doesn't

happen again

and and you know that was really my long

term it's if I go if my life is short if

it's long the the biggest thing I want

is the generational takeaway what what

is the bigger picture of this and what

is really underneath not just let's mask

it you know treat it and say well if it

comes back then it comes back no there's

something more yeah the root so your

your first prayer was wisdom for to know

what else was going on and then you had

this interview with somebody who was

more on the natural side of things and

then did you do your own research or did

you have somebody guide yes I I kept on

on researching because you know I had

vitamin C infusions you know they they

gave me some some alternate health

things that were great but then I just

kept looking I was like okay I know that

there's more um the vitamin C infusions

I could only do for so long they fried

my veins I mean they were it it was a

great way to detox but um but I had to

stop it pretty quick on

um and so it just kept digging and the

the more things that we found out just

about family history um genetic testing

went nowhere you know but you know I

thought well might as well um and so but

but yeah it um it took me on a road of

going to practitioners that I never

thought I'd visit um getting

acupuncture I I was like oh no no don't

know about that and you know I'm like

okay God if if you open the door I will

walk through I you know I am ready to

learn anything and everything and um and

just you know some of the things learn

about my sensitivity to um

electromagnetic pulses um which I you

know always poo pooed all of that stuff

and and also that I do better on a

plant-based diet and you know I was the

big I actually made cheese I milked my

own cows oh wow I remember the first day

that um the the health the Natural

Health doctor that I went to said you

got to take it all out I sat in my

bathtub and I cried I was like no no

cheese

right so okay and so what are some of

the things the doors that you like maybe

explored and then felt like this wasn't

for you not NE I mean everybody's story

is different but what were exact that

where God closed the door and then you

didn't go that way you went this way

tell us kind of some of those details

yeah so um I I was subscribed to moxin

and and really prayed about that I was

like oh should I force this um to to go

on a menopause or not um and I really

felt God saying no um and and so and

that was the very first thing they

wanted to do was was get me on that to

shut down my system and um you know I

did a lot of research and and and really

felt peace about going more natural with

um with soy and soy has been a huge game

Cher in my own personal Journey um it's

really helped balance my my hormones um

and I know there's so much conflicting

data but the more we talked about it

with different practitioners they're

like no you really got to look at the

right data and the right research and um

and so so yeah that was that was a big

one um I had a battle with my surgeon I

ended up getting a double mass actom and

um but she wanted to take my lymph nodes

too and I I felt God saying no there

there there's no cancer there don't need

to take them and she got to the point

where she wasn't even going to do the

surgery without taking them and I said

fine I'm walking away yeah and and she

said no you can't do that you know this

is that whole fear thing going back and

forth I said oh yes I can yeah and I

kind of turned it on I said it's my body

my choice yeah you know

absolutely right yeah and and she ended

up doing the surgery without taking them

and I'm so thankful because they're just

so there's so much your lymph nodes do

and and also with my Aerial Work I'm

hanging by my arms all the time and if I

would have had any issues with that um

removal that would have cut that up out

of my story forever yeah absolutely so

you had to do a lot of your own research

in order to figure out where what are

the costs and benefits of each one of

these interventions and what do you need

to do for you and then some of the

natural things you you had this natural

doctor kind of giving you some some

insight on what to do so you tried

acupuncture and you and now you're

plant-based anything else that you ended

up doing that you felt like God LED you

to just a lot of supplementation and

also um when I was doing um well my my

chiropractor sent me to do massage

therapist I had like issues with my back

muscles just after all the surgeries and

um and she said you just got to get

loosened up and so I went to this lady

and she goes I don't normally think she

was a Christian um chiropractor she goes

I don't normally send people unless I I

know that they they're okay with um with

somebody that because she had all this

Buddhist stuff in her her um background

her her place but she's like she's

really good she knows what she's doing

and if you can look past that you need

to go to her so I'm like okay so I

prayed about it and God just give me get

a lot of Peace about it and I'm like

okay I'm going I got on her table and

I'm like what is it that I'm feeling my

whole body was humming yeah and and she

goes well you're on a

Biomat oh there and I went what is that

and why do I feel totally different

right um so I sleep on one now

interesting I I really prayed about that

and I it seems like as I was working

with the nutritionist she's like your

liver and your spleen don't detox you

need something that'll up it and my

blood pressure was going up and up and

up I slept on that mat for two days and

my blood pressure was normal wow okay so

for people who aren't familiar tell us

what a Biomat is um so it's like

grounding but it's like a force

grounding it's a pemf um frequency and

so you can set it at different

frequencies that help with um with

detoxing with inflammation um and so

mine is quite complicated it also has

red light therapy in it too um it is a

medical product and yeah is this a

beamer or is it something else um I the

one that I have actually I was looking

it up yesterday to share with a friend

um it was it's health line healthy line

yeah that's the one that I use um and so

and is that the main change you made

with respect to EMF or did you make

changes too okay that was the main one

um my husband works in it and wasn't

really willing to let everything down at

home so I kind of had to combat that

myself um but but yeah as much as as you

can I mean we're just surrounded by it

it's it's everywhere yeah I think so

many people when they go down the EMF

Road they get really overwhelmed by all

of the things that people tell them they

have to do right it's not always all

necessary I feel like let the the

perfect be the enemy of the good you

know yes absolutely and and for every

person it's going to be different too

you know I try to get my kids on it um

and you know they're like no I have to

sit still right yeah yeah exactly well

and I've also heard and I don't know I'm

kind of beginning to investigate this a

little bit more myself that sometimes

those grounding mats depending on the

wiring of the house can make things

worse if you have yeah wiring and it'll

actually act like an antenna so it that

also very independent or dependent right

so just kind of watching how you change

too and a lot of my journey was really

about that it's like I I'm a physicist

by trade by train and so I see

everything as an experiment and so I'm

like oh let's try this and you know I'm

the guinea pig for this and abely yeah

that makes sense so and I kind of wanted

to Circle back to the soy thing because

I know that that as you say that's a big

hot button issue so I have a lot of my

patients also are concerned about like

isn't soy bad for your hormones and

everything and so I agree with you that

the I my main concern with soy is that

it's genetically modified unless they

say otherwise exactly yes yes so the

non-GMO the organic yeah absolutely but

as the phytoestrogen it's much weaker

than the estrogen in your body so it's

actually balancing it's going to block

absolutely

yes sure and I just love that the Holy

Spirit was there to guide you and your

decisions the whole way through so where

are you now after all of this so um this

April so a couple months I'll be four

years cancer-free um so yeah April May

that's when I had my surgery um I

basically had two tumors that were fully

enclosed so they did travel anywhere and

um and what we found because we had to

delay the surgery was that when I went

on the plant-based diet and I did

intermittent fasting that was another

thing that I I forgot to add um that I

actually Shrunk The tumors before they

removed them oh fabulous and so I know

as a fact that keeping that lifestyle

will keep the cancer from growing that's

and that was like a huge you know way

for God to show me this is how I want

you to live you know and this is how I

designed you to live um and so you know

my husband and I went on a cruise a

couple weeks ago that is so hard to stay

plant-based and also I'm gluten-free

because my daughter is gluten-free it's

just easier to cook the home um but um

but when you have a big why you just do

it no absolutely that makes sense so and

then I um from kind of what you told me

earlier I was under the impression that

the aerial stuff was after so yeah so I

was already doing aerial silks before

that okay um but but God just increased

my passion um just in the last year we

found out that my daughter has EDS and

that I'm the

carrier um and so I can't sit still for

very long my whole body all the

connective tissue just like

solidifies and and I kept going why do I

hurt so much when I sit still yet I get

up and I you know I do air and I just

feel free and so it was kind of like

this release for me to say this is what

you're supposed to be doing more of and

and it's okay you know everything else

will take care of itself we've automated

a lot of things on my website for the

nonprofit and um and so yeah so now I

run an aerial Studio I perform I have um

nine students I train for three hours a

week and they're between the ages of 9

and 17 and we perform all around the

area on a 20 foot

so awesome very cool you sound like

you're awfully busy between that and all

the you know yes said and whatever so

yeah that's amazing that you managed to

keep all that going yeah I got lots of

good

helpers absolutely yeah so what do you

want to make sure that you leave with

our audience what message would you like

to to leave biggest thing is that God

God knows the solution to whatever

you're dealing with we just have to turn

to him and and it's not you know we we

when we hit a diagnosis or we we have

this health issue we say well what do

the experts say and or what does this

person's story say and you know a lot of

that will contribute to what God wants

to tell us but we don't live somebody

else's story and we we aren't a product

of research we are a child of God and

and he knows specifically what we need

and we have to turn to him and those

turning points those places where we um

we're given the chance to really hone in

on those things with God we got to take

it as an opportunity not look at it as a

Devastation and this is like ruining my

life no it's it's changing your life and

God wants it better and this is how he's

getting your attention absolutely yep he

promises wisdom if we approach him and

ask him for it and he will give exactly

and there's great people like you that

you know can point us in the right

direction when we're confused and we

don't know you know where where to go

yeah absolutely so where can people go

to learn more about you um you can go to

sped homeschool.com and that is where my

nonprofit for the um I'm

sorry the but that is where you can go

and get um information about

homeschooling and special education and

um and yeah and more information about

me yeah cool well I will link to that in

the show notes and thank you for sharing

your story Peggy this has been really

inspirational absolutely thank you

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