This Is the Work That Made Me
A postpartum unraveling, a ritual reborn, and the body of work that emerged when everything I once taught had to hold me instead.
Welcome to the Fieldkeeper Codex, thank you for being here. My name is Jenna Gallarzo. I live in California, raising a confident and wildly intelligent 3-year-old with my husband while growing food, healing my nervous system, honoring ancestral memory, and staying grounded in what’s real.
This work did not begin as a project, it began as a breakdown.
And no, not a metaphorical one—a literal unraveling of my nervous system, sense of self, and body in the wake of loss, birth, and the silence of early motherhood. I was not trying to write books or develop systems of lineage-based living, I was trying to survive. And it was there, in the quiet edge of collapse, that the first seed of the Fieldkeeper Codex was planted.
Before motherhood, I built my career as a clinician, educator, and never-satiated student of life. I trained in Ayurveda, Yoga therapy, Massage therapy, Pranic healing, Early childhood development, and Perinatal support. I taught workshops, consulted professionals, and served …
