Making A Difference: Healing The Root Cause Through Community Collaboration
- rr
- Dec 25, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Dec 27, 2025
It started with seeing this headline.

Then it got even more interesting. Seems they were brewing some secret recipe in Minot, North Dakota that was worthy of further exploration. KFYRTV captured a quick 3 minute introduction (below).
Wowzer, that was some kind of testimonial. How many suffer from trauma and what is the new path that clients and practitioners are forging to have success where others have not? We asked the founder of THE DIFFERENCE, Shelly Bohl.
Founded by Shelly Bohl, The Difference's mission is to restore health in communities by paying the cost of holistic healing for anyone who has experienced trauma.
"My personal definition for trauma is anything that results in a negative emotion, anything that brings you fear or shame or anger or sadness."
While this may seem like an outlier for GFC from our stories of showing the way in food, farming, health and their related eco-systems, it is not. This article quotes the CDC - "preventing Adverse Childhood Events (Trauma) could potentially reduce a large number of health conditions. For example, up to 1.9 million cases of heart disease and 21 million cases of depression." If not the root cause, it certainly is a known contributor and THE DIFFERENCE is showing the way.

Connect. Communicate. Collaborate.
The Difference - A Holistic Approach
308 2nd Ave SW Ste C
Minot, ND 58701
+1 (701) 263-5518
Website: https://thedifaha.org/






