Are you a woman who knows celiac safety protocols like the back of your hand, but when it comes to advocating for yourself, you hold back?
Do you feel like you’ve got people-pleasing tendencies, the fear of being a burden, the stress of making a fuss blocking you from asking for gluten-free precautions: so you settle for just not going or bringing your own food (ALL the time)?
Are you ready to stop always being the caretaker and instead ask for, accept, and enjoy being accomodated? THAT is what The Celiac Women Empowerment Series is here to do.
You were taught to be small in every sense of the word...
So when you go to ask for cross-contact precautions you either: freeze up and skip asking for them all together OR you fawn and make your requests “smaller” than they should be (or than you want).
So when someone makes light of your “silly little fad diet” you bite your tongue.
So when you DO speak up and someone DOES accommodate you, you feel guilty because you were taught to be the caretakER not the one taken care of.
Asking for, accepting, and enjoying being accommodated is hard when it goes against everything you've been taught.
For the sake of your small intestine AND for the sake of your mental, emotional, and social health: you can’t be small anymore.
You’ve got to take up space.
You’ve got to ask for you what you need.
You’ve got to make a “big deal” of things.
You’ve got to let people help shoulder this immense burden (hint: they want to help you!!!)
You’ve got to let people take care of YOU sometimes.
(and deep down I know you know this, that’s why you’re considering this workshop series).
But HOW do you do that?
It starts with identifying the societally taught guilt, shame, and doubt that's sabotaging you...
It continues with building a tool-kit that'll support you in standing up to it and asking for, accepting, and enjoying the love of being included by people around you.
THAT is what I'll help you do in my...
Women with Celiac Empowerment Workshop Series
A 5-part women-only workshop series designed to help you name and stand-up to the societal idea of ALWAYS being the "small" caretaker so you can ask for and accept the love of being actively included by the people around you.
Here’s what's included in the workshop series:
🐅 (5) Activity-based workshops designed to help you work through specific barriers to your celiac safety imposed on you by the patriarchy.
🐅 Workshop summaries/recaps delivered after each workshop to help finalize findings, resources, tools.
Calls will be on Wednesdays at 8:00pm EST for 5 weeks starting 7/9.
Here’s the schedule:
Call 1 7/9/25 @ 8pm EST
Call 2 7/16/25 @ 8pm EST
Call 3 7/23/25 @ 8pm EST
Call 4 7/30/25 @ 8pm EST
Call 5 8/6/25 @ 8pm EST
Hi, if you’re new here, I’m Tayler - fellow celiac and dietitian
I’ve been talking about the barriers women face in celiac diagnosis and management for years and reached my boiling point with the emboldened misogyny we’re seeing brewing in 2025. This is when I realized, it’s time for me to stop just talking, and finally DO something about it.
I know you feel bad when you let yourself down and don’t speak up. I know you feel guilty when you DO speak up and “burden” someone else. You can’t win.
I know because I’ve been there.
I've told people "don't worry about it" when I felt like the accomodations I asked for were too much - when I actually REALLY needed them.
I've told people "no, I can't go" because I didn't want to make them do more work to include me in their event OR make them feel bad if I didn't eat their food.
I've had NO problem speaking up for my mom (I looove having another celiac in the fam), because it's not me, it's someone else... and I'd never let anyone else down. But me? ME, I was letting down constantly...
The root cause: society taught me: I am the caretaker, not the one to be taken care of, and I've had to name that, look it in the face, and change it so I could actually ask for, accept, and enjoy gluten-free accommodations.
While I can’t dismantle the patriarchy, I can help you name it, call it out, and stand up to it too. That is the purpose of this workshop series.
Tear down barriers to speaking up for gluten-free precautions as a woman with celiac so you feel more connected and included in everyday life.
Here’s a deeper look into what we’ll cover inside each call of the Women with Celiac Empowerment Workshop Series —
🐅 Call 1: Track the Tiger: Identify key points of patriarchal sabotage in your celiac management to use as a roadmap for dismantling in the following weeks.
- Go from “GAH! WHY CAN’T I DO IT” to “oooooh, that’s why”
- THIS will disarm the invisible barriers by making them un-ignorable.
🐅 Call 2: Name the Tiger: A call to practice voicing unmet needs around celiac.
- Embolden the parts of you who’ve felt invisible/suppressed: give them the voice they’ve been begging for.
- THIS will help you get more comfortable asking and saying what you REALLY want and need.
🐅 Call 3: Watch the Tiger: A call to symbolically release the weight of unaddressed grief and guilt around historical sabotage.
- From call 1 and call 2: we’ll take these parts of you and ceremoniously release the weight of frustration, anger, resentment, guilt, etc.
- THIS will help clear a path to action.
🐅 Call 4: Stand up to the Tiger: A call to arm yourself with potent reminders for standing up for your celiac safety precautions.
- Standing up for yourself can feel isolating: this call is about making sure you know in those moments: you’re not alone.
🐅 Call 5: Outsmart the Tiger: Your Celiac Survival Kit of tools and resources to hold you during your most sabotage prone activities that’ll help you stand up to the patriarchy.
- Likely the longest call: you’ll collaboratively create YOUR step-by-step tool-kit for what to do when the patriarchal sabotage comes calling.
- THIS is about making sure you’ve got definitive resources for asking for and accepting accommodations from friends/family/staff.
Celiac gets so much better when you can comfortably speak up and let other people include you, but you can’t do that if underlying patriarchal lessons of being the “caretaker” are sabotaging you.
And if knowing that you deserve to be taken care of was enough to erase that deeply ingrained conditioning of being the caretaker in society: you wouldn’t be considering this workshop series.
In this series, we’ll spend time looking at the parts of you that need to be taken care of, who’ve been ignored, shamed, guilted, doubted: and we’ll give them the space they’ve been begging for. The space to be seen.
THEN we’ll give you tools to start protecting those parts of you. We’ll arm you to stand up, so you can actually start to ASK FOR, ENJOY and ACCEPT the love of someone accommodating you.
Wondering if this Women with Celiac Empowerment Series is for you? It might be a great fit if...
- You’ve never been more aware of the patriarchy and are ready to not just CALL it out, but also actually TAKE action to protect yourself against it.
- You crave women-only spaces right now, and finally feeling seen in a room full of other celiac women who “get it” sounds comforting.
- You know all about celiac safety and gluten-free precautions: it all sounds great in theory but AHHHHH it’s so hard to do when you constantly feel like you’re a burden (even when people are enthusiastically trying to accommodate you)
- You're tired of choking back guilt when you FINALLY speak up, and having it sour your enjoyment of being accommodated.
3 Payment Tiers
Accessibility is important to me and I’ve been exploring and experimenting with new ways to incorporate this into my work. This offer is another trial of a tiered system of self-regulated equity-based pricing.
There are 3 payment options:
Equity-pricing: for people holding minority/marginalized identities, or people who can’t afford the full price. If you think you qualify/need it: use it: no justification needed or questions asked.
Full-price: If you can afford it, pay this. This is the actual cost of the offer. This helps me cover fees for planning, hosting, moderating, and subscription fees for applications/softwares involved.
Support equity pricing: If you can afford it and want to support equity pricing tiers: paying this will help me continue to offer equity-based options in the future!
If you need a payment plan for any of these tiers: email me. Again, no judgement on which one you select/need.
The goal at the end of the 5 workshops is to:
- Be able to identify and call out the patriarchy when it starts sabotaging your celiac safety (making it visible takes away much of its power)
- Feel more comfortable asking for the gluten-free precautions you know will keep you safe and feel included in everyday life.
- ACTUALLY be able to ENJOY and accept other people accommodating you (no more guilt souring these beautiful moments of community and connection).
- Have a full-body knowing that you are not alone as a woman with celiac.
Are you ready to let go of always being the caretaker and actually ASK FOR, ENJOY, and ACCEPT the love of someone accommodating you?
This workshop series is your starting place.
I have no plans to offer this again. If your gut is saying “sign up”, that’s a good sign you will benefit from this.
The only question is: are you going to listen to it?