ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes an innovative perspective to understanding and measuring embodiment based on examining how women recovering from anorexia nervosa (AN) respond to questions and scenarios assessing body connection and emotional awareness, two essential facets of embodied lived experience. It briefly reviews the contemporary frameworks of conceptualizing embodiment and the current practices in the assessment and measurement of embodied experience in individuals living with eating disorders. The chapter then proposes a holistic, phenomenologically grounded theoretical-methodological framework for conceptualizing and measuring embodiment. It contributes to conceptualizing and measuring embodiment by complementing the quantitative data on embodiment measurement with subjective, personally rich accounts of how embodiment is experienced and articulated by women recovering from AN. The chapter illustrates the preliminary steps of developing a holistic, phenomenologically grounded model for measuring embodiment by using the data collected during an empirical investigation of women's embodied affective experience throughout the process of recovering from AN.
