The perks of the job
Emotional exhaustion is pretty common for me. I am a perfectionist, an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person , an INFP, in Meyers-Briggs terminology, and Adult Child of an Alcoholic , so easily co-dependent, and I am pretty emotional in general. I channeled my emotions into singing opera, concerts, working with other artists, and more recently, teaching young children. I get to use my predilection for silly faces, funny voices, puppetry, miming, dancing, singing, etc. to amuse and instruct children who delight in doing the same. I also love to move, to run, to climb. I do yoga with kids. They are so friendly and interested in my own interests. This is the funny thing I learned by switching from teaching in a preschool to teaching in a Child Care setting. The children become intimately interested in you, and knowledgeable about you. They know what you like, and can read you like a book. Witness the boy who constantly interrupts me, jokes while I'm trying to tell the children somethin