What changes when you use your own name in your head?
Ethan Kross and Ozlem Ayduk · Making Meaning out of Negative Experiences by Self-Distancing, Current Directions in Psychological Science 20 · 2011
B · Replicated, size uncertain
Shifting from a first-person to a third-person perspective on a memory or a problem reduces emotional reactivity and improves reasoning about it, across laboratory and field studies. The mechanism is not suppression: the event is still processed, from further away. Effects are moderate and not universal.
ProbeTake a current worry. Write two sentences about it as if about a person you are advising, using their name. Note what you would tell them that you have not told yourself.