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Overwhelmed at Christmas? The Women of the Bible Who Understand :: Mary DeMuth [Ep 553]

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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Parenting, Leisure, Education

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, author, podcaster, and speaker Mary DeMuth returns to share the inspiration behind her latest work, which spotlights overwhelmed women in the Bible—women whose stories have often been minimized or overlooked. From Mary the mother of Jesus to Hagar to the widow with two mites, these women model faith, resilience, and wholehearted trust in God.

We talk about how Christmas can be both beautiful and heavy. Mary opens up about her own seasons of overwhelm, from her water breaking on Christmas Eve to sleeping in a barn the week before Christmas. She reminds us that Mary, the mother of Jesus, lived through the deepest fears a mother can face, yet she remained faithful as a disciple. Here is some of what we cover: 

  • Why Christmas often heightens grief, trauma, and unmet longings
  • The consumerism of the holiday season vs. the simplicity of God with us
  • What Shalom really means: wholehearted, whole-bodied peace rooted in surrender
  • Jesus’ care for the overlooked, the aging, and the marginalized
  • The definition of “Whelm” which  refers to out-of-control stress,  “overwhelmed” is that same stress amplified beyond capacity
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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:24.5

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0:27.4

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0:33.5

Hey, y'all welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:40.4

I'm your host, Heather McFadion, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

0:44.8

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

0:50.1

And in this episode number 553, I'm welcoming back to the show, Mary Dumuth.

0:56.5

It always comes from surrender and recognizing that he is God and we are not.

1:05.3

And recognizing that I could even have a campaign of wanting to change myself into a peaceful person. But even in that,

1:13.2

I am at the helm of that. And so I have to even admit, Lord, I want to change. I want to be a

1:19.7

peaceful mom. But I recognize I can't make it happen. But I can surrender this. And I can say,

1:26.9

can you come in and fix this because I am helpless to do so in my own strength. I need the strength of the spirit living within me to create that piece.

1:38.3

Mary is a mom to adult children. Definitely check out an episode we did years ago on building the family you never had.

1:45.7

We've linked to it in the show notes. But she wears a lot of other hats. She is a literary agent.

1:50.6

She's an artist. She's a speaker and a podcaster and an author. And she's written so many books.

1:56.6

There's a series that she did recently on women in the Bible. And the one way I wanted to focus on today is the most overwhelmed women of the Bible.

2:04.8

Given this time of year and all of the pressures specifically on women to make the holidays magical and all the other things that come along with the holidays, I thought we could use some encouragement from Mary.

2:15.5

She started these studies based on her own Bible reading,

2:19.7

and even that is inspirational as we head into the new year. I think I'm inspired by her.

2:25.6

She has a podcast called Pray Every Day that you could just ask Alexa to play for you

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