This study explores possible risk and protective factors for disordered eating (i.e., body responsiveness, body awareness, alexithymia) from an integrated mind-body perspective. Participants were 55 undergraduate females at a small, midwestern, Catholic university. Subjects completed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20, the Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ), the Body Responsiveness Questionnaire, and the Eating Disorder Inventory-3 Referral Form. This study's results found high body responsiveness was strongly and very significantly associated with healthier eating attitudes and behaviors, and low body responsiveness was strongly and very significantly associated with higher risk of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors. Body awareness (as measured by the BAQ Total Score) was not significantly related to eating disorder (ED) symptoms. Additional correlations found a significant and positive relationship between BAQ Factor 1 and ED symptoms, but BAQ Factor 1 was the only factor/variable in this study not significantly related to body responsiveness. BAQ Factors 2, 3, 4 were not associated with ED symptoms, but were significantly related to body responsiveness. In regression analyses, low body responsiveness and high BAQ Factor 1 very significantly predicted drive for thinness and bulimia. This study also found alexithymia and difficulty identifying feelings were strongly associated with lower body responsiveness and higher ED risk, but alexithymia and difficulty identifying feelings did not significantly contribute to the prediction of drive for thinness or bulimia. Further investigation found that body responsiveness completely mediated between alexithymia and ED symptoms and between difficulty identifying feelings and ED symptoms. Implications of this study's findings are discussed. As a whole, this study's results suggest that high body responsiveness may hold significant promise as a possible ED protective factor and/or low body responsiveness may be a possible risk factor for ED. Furthermore, body responsiveness may have a role in the treatment of alexithymia (and difficulty identifying feelings), especially in those at risk for an ED. Further investigation is needed into the relationship between different forms of body awareness and eating disorder risk. Overall, this study's results suggest an integrated mind-body paradigm in ED Prevention Research may hold promise.