Most of the time, our bodies routinely manage new information and experiences without our being aware of it. However, when something out of the ordinary occurs, and we find ourselves without sufficient experiences and/or resources to overcome it, we can become overwhelmed (e.g. a car accident, job loss, etc.) or series of repeatedly subjective distressful events (e.g. neglect, abuse, etc.). Trauma originates as a response in the nervous system, a bodily experience. I.e., the "trauma" is not in the event. It occurs in our bodies. Our nervous systems become overloaded, resulting in disturbing responses (symptoms) as the experience remains 'frozen' in our bodies and unprocessed in our brains. Such unprocessed experiences and associated feelings are stored 'stuck' in the nervous system in a "raw" and emotional form rather than in a correctly processed story mode. It leaves us unable to move forward completely, regardless of how much time passes. The limbic system maintains these traumatic experiences in an isolated memory network that is associated with emotions and physical sensations, which are disconnected from the brain’s cortex where we use language to store memories. Because these experiences don't have a time/date associated with them, they can be continually triggered when we experience events similar to the traumatic event(s). Often the memory itself is long forgotten, but the painful feelings (or symptoms of the event), such as anxiety, panic, anger, or despair, are continually triggered in the present. The person's ability to live in the present and learn from new experiences becomes inhibited.​ Counseling and other therapeutic interventions, such as Eye Movement Reprocessing and Desensitization (EMDR), Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, IASIS Micro-Current Neurofeedback, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), help normalize the symptoms of trauma, reduce activation, and create the connections between our brain’s memory networks, enabling our brain to heal and process the traumatic memory in a very natural way.