"Name difficult feelings to make them manageable Green built a personal mental-health toolkit around what he calls "shame reduction through naming," grounded in Fred Rogers' line: "anything mentionable is manageable and anything not mentionable tends to be not manageable." For Green, shame and embarrassment live in the formless, abstract depths; "if I can bring that forth into the world and allow it to see light through giving it form or giving it some kind of structure, then it becomes manageable." Dan Harris connects this to meditation: the simple act of labeling an emotion — "fear is here" — creates enough distance so that you are no longer fully inside it. Practically, the next time a difficult feeling surges, pause and say its name out loud or in writing before reacting. Source: John Green, Happiness Lab / Ten Percent Happier (with Dan Harris), Everything Is Tuberculosis Episode"