About
Founder, Balanced Living Functional Medicine
Creator of Push Pause to Heal
Changing the Conversation
Dr. Emily Roedersheimer is a physician, entrepreneur, and a voice in functional medicine who’s challenging conventional wisdom about stress, chronic disease, and what it actually takes to heal.
With over 15 years in family medicine and advanced certification from the Institute for Functional Medicine (one of only 1,000 practitioners at the time of her certification), Dr. Emily brings both clinical rigor and personal understanding to her work.
She reversed her own rheumatoid arthritis — a condition she'd had since age ten — through functional medicine, eliminating her need for lifelong medication.
That personal transformation led to a professional one.
ABOUTIn 2018, she founded Balanced Living Functional Medicine, pioneering a lifestyle-first approach that achieves measurable results before patients spend a dollar on labs or supplements.
The Power of Pause
Her practice now serves clients nationwide through a team of certified health coaches, scaling her model while maintaining deeply personalized care.
Through speaking engagements, media appearances, and her Push Pause to Heal framework, she hopes to change the way we, as a society, think about stress and health.
She's Been on Both Sides As both a patient with chronic disease and a physician trained in conventional medicine, Dr. Emily understands the gap between what traditional healthcare offers and what people actually need. She bridges that gap with compassion, science, and lived experience.
She Challenges the Status Quo. While the industry pushes expensive testing and complex protocols, Dr. Emily proves that addressing foundational lifestyle factors first creates faster, more sustainable results. Her clients achieve an average 63% symptom reduction in 90 days through lifestyle changes alone. And because they don’t rely on a supplement subscription, clients can carry those results with them forever.
She Scales What Works Dr. Emily doesn't just treat patients — she trains practitioners. Her team of certified functional health coaches and a Nurse Practitioner extends her reach while maintaining the heart-centered, individualized approach her practice is known for.
She Speaks Truth to Burnout Culture In a world that glorifies hustle, Dr. Emily gives audiences permission to slow down. Her message isn't just about health — it's about redefining what high performance actually means.
What Makes Dr. Emily’s Approach Different
Credentials & Recognition
Clinical Training:
Physician, Board-Certified in Family Medicine
Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (Institute for Functional Medicine)
15+ years in clinical practice
25+ years of lived autoimmune experience - now in remission
Professional Leadership:
Founder & CEO, Balanced Living Functional Medicine
Creator, Push Pause to Heal framework
Practice model: 63% average symptom reduction in 90 days through lifestyle-first medicine
Created and led corporate programs
Host of the Push Pause to Heal podcast
The Mission
To revolutionize how we understand stress — not as a vague mental state, but as the silent driver of hormonal imbalance, autoimmune flares, gut dysfunction, emotional burnout, and many of the conditions we treat every day.
To make micro-pauses as essential and expected as green smoothies or morning workouts.
To help audiences everywhere recognize that chronic doesn't have to mean permanent — and that healing begins the moment you pause long enough to see what's been hiding in plain sight.