About Camilla SageÂ
Founder of The Body of Freedom Method
A body-based approach to moving from self-protection into embodied vitality and freedom.
Registered Dietitian · Background in Psychology · Somatic & Nervous System Practitioner · Specialist in Binge & Emotional Eating
Rooted in the body, the nervous system, and the rhythms of nature.
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Before anything else, let me say thisÂ
If you have found your way here, it is likely not because you are looking for another method.
Most women who arrive here are tired in a way that is not always easy to explain, because on the outside their lives often still function. They show up, take responsibility, and carry what needs to be carried, sometimes for years, without it necessarily being visible to others.
At the same time, there is often a quieter experience underneath that has been there for a long time. A kind of ongoing tension in the relationship with food and the body, and a sense of needing to manage themselves in a way that never fully settles.
It can feel like moving between trying to stay in control and then losing it again, even when you genuinely want things to be different. You may recognize that you are doing many things “right,” and still find yourself in patterns that don’t match what you know or want.
Over time, this stops feeling like something that comes and goes, and becomes something you carry with you.
When food stops being simple
For many women, this becomes most visible through food.
Eating is no longer something that feels straightforward. Hunger becomes harder to read, cravings feel more charged, and there is often a subtle awareness running in the background, as if part of you is constantly monitoring what is happening.
You may notice it most in the evenings, or in moments where your system feels more tired or exposed, where the pull toward food becomes stronger in a way that is difficult to fully interrupt, even when you understand what is happening.
Afterwards, there is often clarity. You can see what unfolded, you know what you would have preferred, and there may be a mix of frustration, guilt, or simply a quiet hope that next time will be different.
And still, the pattern returns.
Not because you are not trying, but because something in your system has not yet shifted at the level where the pattern is held.
One woman described the experience of this work in this way
“After just two weeks of working with Camilla, I've made some massive shifts in my mindset and I've stopped binge eating. This is something completely different.”
— Heidi B.
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What is often happening underneath
Over time, I have seen that this is rarely about a lack of knowledge or discipline.
More often, the nervous system has been living under a certain level of pressure for a long time, and the body has adapted to that in ways that make sense when you look at it closely.
When the system stays activated over time, whether through responsibility, stress, self-pressure, or more subtle forms of holding, it begins to organize itself around that state. Eating patterns then become part of how the body regulates, softens, or finds relief within what it is carrying.
From the outside, this can look inconsistent or out of control. From the inside, it is often a system doing what it can to stay within what is manageable.
This is also where many approaches fall short, because they focus on changing behavior without addressing the conditions that made the behavior necessary.
"I don’t teach women how to control themselves.
I help them feel safe enough to trust themselves again."
- Â Camilla Sage
Where my work begins
My work begins with the body and the experience of being inside it.
Instead of asking you to control yourself more effectively, we begin by helping your system experience something different from the inside, in a way that allows the body to gradually come out of tension and protection.
As this begins to happen, even in small ways, there is often a noticeable shift. The constant pressure softens, the need to manage everything becomes less pronounced, and the patterns that once felt automatic begin to loosen their hold.
This is not something that happens through force. It develops over time as the body begins to register that it does not need to stay in the same state of holding.
The deeper shift this work supports
This work is not only about changing eating patterns, even though that is often where it begins.
It supports a shift out of a way of living where much of your energy goes into holding yourself together internally, staying on top of reactions, and managing your experience from the outside.
As the body becomes more settled, there is often a different sense of being in yourself that begins to emerge. The body feels more possible to stay with, there is less internal bracing, and eating starts to feel simpler in a way that is not driven by effort, but by a change in the internal state.
Alongside this, something else often returns. A sense of space, moments of quiet, and a more direct contact with your own experience as it unfolds, rather than observing it from a distance.
For many women, this is unfamiliar at first. It does not come as a dramatic shift, but as a gradual movement from holding everything together toward actually being present inside their own lives.
A glimpse of what this can feel like
One woman described it like this:
“After just two weeks of working with Camilla, I've made some massive shifts in how I relate to myself, and the binge eating has stopped. This feels completely different.”
- Â Heidi B.
The deeper reason behind this work
Women are rarely struggling because they do not know what to eat.
More often, their nervous systems have been living under pressure for long enough that eating patterns have become part of how the body maintains balance.
When the system adapts to ongoing activation, whether through perfectionism, responsibility, or self-surveillance, it does not simply settle because a better plan is introduced. It settles when it experiences enough safety to release some of that holding.
As that happens, patterns around food begin to shift in a way that feels more integrated and less dependent on effort.
This is why the work I offer draws on both nervous system regulation and somatic practice, allowing changes in internal state to support changes in behavior in a way that can be sustained over time.
Who I work with
Most of the women I work with appear steady from the outside and are used to being capable and responsible.
They often carry a lot without it being visible, and continue to function even when something inside feels tight or unsettled.
Food gradually becomes an area where that tension shows itself more clearly, and eating is no longer neutral. Instead, it becomes something that is negotiated, managed, and rarely fully at ease.
Underneath, there are often questions that are not always spoken out loud, such as whether things might get worse if control is loosened, or whether the body can still be trusted after years of trying to manage it.
So the managing continues, even when it is tiring, because it feels safer than stepping into something unknown.
What many women are longing for is not only relief from the patterns, but a sense of calm, a quieter mind, and a way of being in themselves that feels steady enough to live from.
Why this work is different
My background is in clinical nutrition, psychology, binge and emotional eating, and somatic bodywork, and over time I have come to see how closely these areas are connected.
Information alone rarely changes a system that has learned to brace. What tends to shift patterns is helping the body feel supported and regulated enough to respond differently.
When we work together, we look at both what is happening behaviorally and the state from which those behaviors arise, because the two are closely linked.
This work moves at a pace the body can stay with, allowing patterns to reorganize as the system becomes more regulated, rather than relying on pressure to create change.
Because of that, it is not a quick process, but it is a steady one that allows change to take place on a more stable foundation.
From there, it becomes possible to experience not only a different relationship with food, but a different way of living.
Another woman shared this
“This time last year I was binge eating every day and hiding it. With Camilla’s help, that has stopped, and I feel like myself again.”
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- Marianne H.
My life is part of this work
I live on a small island outside Bergen, where life moves with the seasons and a quieter rhythm.
This is not something I try to create as an image. It is simply how I live, and it shapes how I hold this work.
Alongside that are years of experience sitting with women who carry shame, urgency, and exhaustion in their relationship with food.
I have seen what long-term dieting can do to self-trust, and I have also seen what begins to change when the body experiences enough safety to soften out of that.
I do not meet you as something to fix. I meet you as someone whose system adapted in order to cope, and who can begin to shift when the conditions allow it.
You may feel at home here if
You have spent years trying to manage your relationship with food through discipline, and sense there may be something deeper in the body involved.
You function well in many areas of life, but feel privately exhausted by the tension in your relationship with food or your body.
You are less interested in another strategy and more interested in understanding what your system has been carrying.
You are open to approaching change as something that unfolds over time, where trust is rebuilt gradually.
Wondering where to begin?
Many women begin with an introductory course or a conversation where we explore what feels like the right next step.
There is no need to decide quickly.
Often it is enough to notice what resonates, and whether your body recognizes something here.
Closing
Most women do not need to become stronger in order to change.
They need the conditions that allow them to soften out of holding and begin living from a place that feels more steady and their own.
- Camilla Sage
“Most women don’t need to become stronger.
They need to feel safe enough to stop surviving and start living.”
- Camilla Sage
Camilla Sage AS
Organisation number:Â 925 559 121
WhatsApp/Phone: +47 975 72 889
Email:Â camilla@camillasage.com
