About Recovery Trauma™
Créé à partir de l'expérience vécue.Built for life beyond survival mode.
Recovery Trauma™ is a survivor-created, trauma-informed wellbeing platform bringing together education, practical tools, guided reflection and community in one supportive space.
It was created from a simple idea:
What if the things that can support trauma recovery were easier to understand, easier to find and available in one place?
Why Recovery Trauma™ Exists
Because sometimes you need to understand what is happening.
Sometimes you need something that helps you regulate.
Sometimes you need space to process.
Sometimes you're ready to rebuild and integrate.
And sometimes you simply need to know:
I'm not the only person who has felt like this.
Recovery Trauma™ exists to create a place for all of those moments.
Comprendre·Réguler·Traiter·Intégrer
Healing Beyond Survival Mode™
Recovery Trauma™ in Numbers
380,000+
Community Followers
A growing global community interested in understanding trauma, healing and recovery.
8+
Years of the Founder's Personal Therapy
Recovery Trauma™ grew from years of lived experience, therapy, learning, reflection and personal recovery work.
🇩🇪 → 🇬🇧
Germany to the United Kingdom
Founder Jana Burkhardt is originally from Germany and now lives in the United Kingdom.
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Founder-Built Vision
Created from the ground up. The concept, structure and original platform were created by Jana from her own vision of bringing trauma education and recovery resources together.
🌍 Global
Community & Reach
Recovery Trauma™ connects people across countries, backgrounds and different stages of recovery.
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Mission
Healing Beyond Survival Mode™ — helping people better understand themselves, discover supportive tools and explore what recovery can look like for them.
Hi, I'm Jana Burkhardt.
Founder & CEO of Recovery Trauma™
Originally from Germany and now living in the United Kingdom, I created Recovery Trauma™ after years of navigating my own trauma and recovery journey.
My lived experience has included severe Complex PTSD (CPTSD), PTSD, BPD, anxiety and deep abandonment difficulties.
For a long time, I lived in survival mode without fully understanding why my mind and body reacted the way they did.
I spent more than eight years in therapy, alongside years of learning, searching, trying different approaches and slowly beginning to understand myself differently.
I didn't create Recovery Trauma™ because I believe I have discovered one answer to trauma.
I created it because I discovered there isn't just one.
Different things supported me at different stages.
That experience became one of the foundations of Recovery Trauma™.
« J'ai construit la plateforme que je cherchais autrefois pour moi-même. »
Thank you for being here.
With gratitude,
Jana Burkhardt
Founder, Recovery Trauma™
De la survie à Healing Beyond Survival Mode™
Un espace doux et tout-en-un pour le rétablissement du trauma — découvrez comment Recovery Trauma™ fonctionne en quelques minutes.
Trigger warning
This short video mentions trauma, survival mode and recovery. Please choose what feels safe for you right now.
A Gentle Reminder
“You don't have to perform your healing.
You don't have to rush your healing.
You don't have to earn your healing.
You only need to keep showing up for yourself, gently and at your own pace.”
— Jana Burkhardt, Founder, Recovery Trauma™ · Healing Beyond Survival Mode™
Founder & Guide
Jana Burkhardt
Lived experience
💛 Why I Chose These Tools
During my recovery, I wasn't only trying to understand what had happened to me. I was trying to understand what was happening inside me.
Over time, I explored many different approaches.
Some helped me feel grounded.
Some helped me recognise and name emotions.
Some helped me understand trauma responses.
Some gave me ways to express experiences that were difficult to put into words.
Some helped me reconnect with my body.
Others helped me understand relationships, boundaries, attachment, identity and the relationship between the mind and nervous system.
That is why Recovery Trauma™ doesn't present one method as “the answer.” Instead, it brings different trauma-informed concepts, reflective practices and practical tools together so people can explore what feels supportive for them.
Take what supports you. Explore at your own pace. Leave what doesn't feel right for you.
Les quatre domaines du rétablissement
Recovery Trauma™ est organisé autour de quatre domaines interconnectés.
Comprendre
Apprenez-en davantage sur le trauma, les émotions, les réponses du système nerveux, l'attachement, les relations et les schémas comportementaux. Parfois, comprendre pourquoi quelque chose se produit peut réduire la peur et la confusion qui l'entourent.
Réguler
Explorez des exercices pratiques conçus pour favoriser l'ancrage, le calme, la reconnexion au présent et la régulation du système nerveux. Ceux-ci incluent la respiration, l'ancrage, les exercices somatiques, les pratiques bilatérales, la pleine conscience et d'autres techniques.
Traiter
Créez un espace de réflexion et d'exploration émotionnelle grâce à la tenue d'un journal, des pistes de réflexion guidées, le travail sur l'enfant intérieur, des exercices créatifs et d'autres approches réflexives. Tout ne peut pas être immédiatement expliqué par des mots. Le processus d'intégration peut prendre de nombreuses formes différentes.
Intégrer
Le rétablissement est bien plus que la compréhension du trauma. L'intégration explore les relations, les limites, l'identité, l'auto-compassion, la créativité, le sens, le bien-être et la construction progressive d'une vie qui n'est plus entièrement organisée autour de la survie.
Why I Built Recovery Trauma™
For years, the things I found useful were scattered everywhere.
“Why is all of this so difficult to find when you're already overwhelmed?”
Eventually, that question became Recovery Trauma™.
I created the original platform myself and began bringing together the tools, education, exercises, journals and experiences that reflected what I had searched for throughout my own healing journey.
Recovery Trauma™ has continued to grow from there.
- It is not a replacement for therapy.
- It is not a promise that one exercise will heal trauma.
- And it is not a programme telling you how quickly you should recover.
It is a place to understand, explore, practise, reflect and discover what may support you.
✨ A Note From Jana
Throughout Recovery Trauma™, you may see sections labelled “A Note From Jana.”
These are there for a reason.
I didn't want Recovery Trauma™ to feel like an anonymous collection of worksheets and exercises.
When you see A Note From Jana, I'm sharing something from my own lived experience — perhaps why I chose to include a particular exercise, something I personally learned during recovery, or why a particular subject matters to me.
These notes are personal reflections. They are not therapy, medical advice or professional recommendations.
Not every exercise will feel right for every person — and that's okay.
There is no single correct way to heal.
From Surviving to Healing Beyond Survival Mode™
Recovery can mean more than reducing symptoms.
Healing doesn't have to happen all at once. You can learn, explore and move forward at your own pace.
💛 A Personal Dedication
Recovery Trauma™ was created from lived experience, resilience and the belief that life beyond survival mode is possible.
There are two people whose place in my story I want to acknowledge.
I would first like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my father, who supported me throughout the development of Recovery Trauma™.
Thank you for believing in me, encouraging me, guiding me and reminding me to keep moving forward.
Your support became an important part of bringing this vision to life.
I would also like to dedicate Recovery Trauma™ to my mother.
8 March 1965 — 24 December 1996
Losing my mother changed my life forever.
That loss became part of a much longer journey of trying to understand trauma, grief, emotional pain, survival and eventually recovery.
Every lesson, every challenge and every step of my own healing journey contributed in some way to the creation of Recovery Trauma™.
Recovery Trauma™ is dedicated to you.
May something created from my own journey help another person feel understood, find support or discover hope within theirs.
With love,
Jana Burkhardt
Founder & CEO · Recovery Trauma™
With Gratitude
A Personal Acknowledgement
Recovery Trauma™ would not exist without the people who supported me throughout my own healing journey.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Nanneke Morgan, who was my therapist, for the support, compassion, insight and therapeutic guidance she provided during some of the most challenging periods of my life.
Eight years of therapy taught me many things, but perhaps one of the most important was that healing rarely happens completely alone.
Sometimes it is supported by people who create a safe space.
People who listen.
People who ask difficult questions with compassion.
People who help us see something differently.
And people who help us reconnect with ourselves when we feel lost.
Thank you for being part of my journey and for the work you continue to do supporting others.
With gratitude,
Jana Burkhardt
Founder, Recovery Trauma™
This acknowledgement reflects Jana Burkhardt's individual lived experience and should not be interpreted as a professional endorsement or recommendation. Individuals are encouraged to undertake their own research when choosing a therapist or mental-health professional.
Our Mission
To help people affected by trauma understand what they are experiencing, discover practical tools and feel less alone in their recovery.
Our Vision
A world where life after trauma can become more than survival.
Our Values
💛 Lived Experience Matters — Recovery Trauma™ was born from lived experience. We believe survivor voices deserve to be part of conversations about trauma and recovery.
🌿 There Is No Single Path — What helps one person may not help another. Recovery is individual, and people should have space to explore different approaches.
Important
Recovery Trauma™ is an educational and wellbeing platform and is not a substitute for therapy, medical care, diagnosis or treatment.
The founder's lived experience is shared to provide personal context behind the creation of the platform and should not be interpreted as clinical or professional mental-health advice.
What's inside Recovery Trauma™
Swipe through the full toolkit — tap any tile to explore.
Journal de rétablissement
Dream Journal & Reflections
Voice Journal
Guided Breathing
EFT Tapping
Grounding Exercises
Régulation du système nerveux
Somatic Exercises
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Guided Meditations
Sleep Support
Sounds & Meditations
Recovery Library
Courses
Worksheets
Workbooks
Communauté
Événements en direct
Personalized Recovery Roadmaps
Compassion first
Every tool, prompt, and word is written with a trauma-informed lens. No shame, no pressure, no streaks.
Safe & private
Your journals and reflections are yours alone. We protect them like we'd want ours protected.
In community
A global community of 380,000+ people walking this path alongside you — never alone again.
Trusted by a Global Healing Community
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Governance & Team Roles
Leadership structure, qualifications, responsibilities, boundaries, and accountability framework for Recovery Trauma™ — supporting compliance, safeguarding, governance, audit readiness, and platform accountability.
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How flagged issues, risks and safeguarding concerns are reviewed at Recovery Trauma™ — with clear decision points and accountability at each stage.
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