Elida's Blog

Resources

Here you’ll find a collection of practical tools, reflective guides, and grounded systems to help you reclaim your energy, reconnect with yourself, and live a more creative life.

The Busy Season Survival Guide Ebook

This 100+ page illustrated workbook and reflective companion will help you navigate demanding seasons of work without losing yourself in the process.

In this five-part guide, we’ll break down your unique brand of burnout, prepare for your next busy season, manage the mayhem once you’re in it, build sustainable self-care strategies into your workweeks, and find ways to recover when burnout starts creeping in.

Want to get a feel for the approach first?

You can check out the free Busy Season Survival Guide mini-series right here on the blog! The ebook expands on each part of the mini-series, bringing them together through worksheets, planning tools, personal insights, and mindset shifts that help you stay in the driver’s seat of your busiest seasons.

Free Resources:

Feeling overwhelmed?

The 5-Minute Reset

A quick grounding practice to help you switch gears and gain momentum — especially for mentally overloaded days.

(This one got me from mom-mode to work-mode quickly in the mornings!)

Lost touch with your creativity?

Build a Lasting Creative Practice

A 5-part guided email series to help you reconnect with your creative hobby (and actually stick with it). Built around a story arc:

Spark → Meaning → Permission → Practice → Identity

A Whimsical Return to Your Creative Self

An immersive 5-part email journey to help you reclaim your energy, reconnect with yourself, and honour the part of you that wants to create.

If magic and whimsy are your thing, you’ll love this.

Need some practical tools?

Excel Digital Bullet Journal

The simplicity and flexibility of bullet journaling, brought to life on a convenient, keyboard-friendly spreadsheet.

(This is basically what kept me sane as a public accountant.)

Simple Monthly Budget Template

A simple, customizable budgeting tool focused on clarity over restriction.

(An accountant lives here, so of course we have a budgeting spreadsheet. I made this one for my number-averse friends.)

Craving Ongoing Creative Connection?

Creative Kindling Newsletter

A monthly letter from one busy creative to another, learning to balance work, life, and creativity.

Also great for blogger musings (I like to share bits of my process — why I wrote what I wrote, etc.)

The Creative Reconciliation on Substack

Writing from the more reflective, introspective side of the blog. Creative unfolding and reconciling the space between corporate and creative lives.

Subscribe if you’re a Substack fan — I really enjoy this community!