For adults, the holidays are less about receiving and more about giving. Waking up bright-eyed in adolescence, giddy with excitement about what presents arrived from family or a big, burly man in red and white has become a fleeting memory. As the joyous approaches, stress spawns from work, travel, children and significant others as the shopping ever-looms. To even have a moment of internal dialogue pertaining to what you may get this year feels, at best, unlikely, and at worst, impossible. Oftentimes, we must treat ourselves when it seems no one else will.
