If Only I’d Been a Clown – A Workbook on Professional Fulfilment as a Highly Sensitive Person

You pick up on things others miss. You think in layers, feel things deeply – and have probably spent years being told you’re “too much.” This workbook helps you figure out what you actually need, what’s been getting in your way, and what it looks like when work finally fits.

Being highly sensitive is not a flaw. It’s a trait with remarkable depth and potential – but only when you’ve found an environment that actually works for you.

Many highly sensitive people spend years in jobs that drain them. They show up, they deliver, they push through – but they never quite feel at home. They give more than most, and burn out faster than most, without ever understanding why. This workbook starts right there.

What’s inside:

Six chapters walk you through the questions that matter most when it comes to your working life:

• Who am I? – Your strengths, patterns and natural rhythm as an HSP

• What’s holding me back? – Limiting beliefs, old patterns, and the trap of always saying yes

• The world I work in – Your environment, your conditions, and what your body has been trying to tell you

• Where do I go from here? – Employed or self-employed, and what your ideal working life actually looks like

• Am I highly sensitive? – A self-assessment built specifically around professional life

• The Grand Finale – Your essence, your vision, your next move

The self-assessment in this workbook wasn’t taken from a textbook. It grew out of more than thirty years of therapeutic work and the author’s own lived experience as a highly sensitive person. It zeroes in on exactly what standard HSP tests tend to leave out: the professional dimension.

Who is this workbook for?

For highly sensitive people who know something isn’t working – even if they can’t quite put their finger on what. For anyone ready to understand why certain jobs wear them down so much faster than others, and what a better fit might actually look like.

Author: 

Kornelia Igges is a licensed psychotherapy practitioner with training in Ericksonian clinical hypnosis and person-centred counselling. For over thirty years she has guided people through professional and personal turning points.