THE SPRING NEWSLETTER
News and updates from This Might Hurt!
Hello again from the directors of This Might Hurt, Marion and Kent!
We’re in the second year of our grassroots screening campaign and hitting a stride with outreach and screenings for practitioners, universities, and pain survivors. There’s 50 million people with chronic pain in the US alone, so with two part-time staff, we have our work cut out for us.
We’ve recently been screening with CRPS support groups across the U.S. and we’ve been so moved to hear their stories, their openness, and their struggles with this illness. Several of them have told us they feel seen by the film. One person wrote us, “I cannot tell you enough, what a beautiful message and theory this documentary is sending to the world.”
NEW REVIEW
We’re so excited to share that we were recently reviewed by Documentary Drive, a website focused on reviews of feature docs and shorts!
Illuminating and moving, “This Might Hurt” opens eyes to a new approach that should be considered in light of the on-going opioid epidemic across America. The film doesn’t sugarcoat things. It presents facts and human stories. It shows successes of the therapy but also how the complex nature of each person’s experience can shape the outcome and whether the relief they find will be on-going or not.
DVDs & BLU-RAYs
We recently discounted our DVDs and Blu-rays of This Might Hurt. If you like physical media, grab your very own copy! They also make great gifts. But since we’re shipping them out of Marion’s shed, no gift wrapping available, sorry!
PURCHASE BLU-RAY
NEXT WEEK’S WATCH PARTY
This Might Hurt Live Screening and Q&A in partnership with Pain Psychotherapy Canada
Join us May 25th at 6:30pm ET for a virtual screening of This Might Hurt followed by a live Q&A featuring directors Kent Bassett & Marion Cunningham and special guests, Howard Schubiner, MD, and Tanner Murtagh MSW, RSW.
In this special event, we will watch the film as a community, and then discuss how Pain Reprocessing Therapy can be used to treat chronic pain. Audience members will have the opportunity to interact with each other during the screening of the film and ask questions during the live Q&A.
For more information, and to reserve your ticket:
https://watch.eventive.org/tmh/play/624df67c3067c40061a646a9
And if you’d like to see some of our previous Q&As with experts like Dr. David Clarke, Dr. John Stracks, and Nicole Sachs, LCSW, check out our YouTube page!
CE OPPORTUNITY! View This Might Hurt and earn 3 CE credits
We are so excited to share an opportunity with you to earn CE credit for watching our film! On Thursday, June 9th from 12pm-3pm ET please join Dr. Jeffrey Axelbank for a Live APA-Approved CE Workshop through NJPA! Join us for the talk, "New Approaches to Psychotherapy for Chronic Pain," followed by the film screening and Q&A with Dr. Axelbank.
AROUND THE WEB
We always like to share some mind-body resources we’ve come across.
A thoughtful article about Dr. Allan Abbass dives into to the therapy featured in This Might Hurt.
Dr. Schubiner is part of this NYT article on VR and chronic pain.