insight writing

Writing Our Way Home

"What comes through us when we get out of the way…is us untwisted, us in the form of love."

Jaya Ashmore

Welcome to Insight Writing!

Here you will find support towards an embodied, creative life and a like-minded community to share your personal journey.
Helen Iles - Author and Insight Writing Community Founder

I’m Helen and I’m the founder of Insight Writing.

I’m also the author of Hiraeth- Our Longing for Belonging, an inner-outer journey speaking of our fundamental need to feel connected and to find home and tribe.

Insight Writing is an embodied, trauma-informed arts and healing practice, grounded in decades of work as an arts facilitator and meditation guide. Whether in Circle together or as a personal home practice, the technique playfully guides us towards stillness and focus, making space for creativity to flow freely.

Writing for wellbeing is a reliable practice for bringing to light hidden aspects of our selves. It’s also an enjoyable way to take time and space, whether you want to write for yourself or towards publication. Together, we co-create a supportive, therapeutic environment where we can relax and feel confident.

Here, you will find a warm, lively community of writers and writing, waiting to welcome you home.

Books by our Community

Books to Comfort, Inspire and Uplift

Hiraeth - Our Longing for Belonging

Helen Iles

£10 plus shipping

Insight Writing

£8 plus shipping

Out of Nowhere ~ Notes on Meditation and Aliveness

Open Dharma

from £27.99 incl shipping

Join our Community

A Space For You To Relax & Create

Meeting each other in the stillness. Following the energy as it rises. Learning to trust our own unique voice.

From Our Community

"Thank you Helen. I really believe that doing that course with you unlocked a creativity I didn’t know I had. You’re an inspiration."
Natalie Ribbans
Natalie Ribbans
Teacher and Artist
"Sharing space and creative time with other women feels like a necessary luxury right now."
Larissa Fischer - community member
Larissa Fischer
Legal Advocate
"I've valued this so much and can't thank you enough for creating such a wonderful welcoming and non-judgemental group of goodness."
Gemma Marnier
Gemma Marnier
\interior Designer

Writing Heroines Membership

Monthly subscription only £25
  • Weekly, year-round online Insight Writing workshops
  • Recorded practices tailored to the needs of the group
  • Ritual Circles
  • Fun and supportive whatsapp group
  • Non-judgemental, encouraging space
  • 121s by arrangement

Not ready to jump into a Group Space? Try this Insight Writing Taster

You will need about 10 minutes, a space where you won’t be disturbed, a notepad with something to write or draw, and a timer.

The meditation begins at 1min 30 secs.

 

Insight Writing - Writing Heroines Membership
“As Helen explores herself through the world, and the world through her self, she softly encourages us to reconnect to the hearth of our own soul. My delight with her language comes from her strong, clear stride toward the modern importance of re-assessing and re-understanding community, even while she creates the welcoming context of a constant thirst for lost wisdom and new learning. Her book is a balm for the ill of our social anxieties, which we find could come not from people (as we feared) but from our traumas, which we will only heal together.”
Lisa and Max
Massage Therapost

not quite ready to jump in to a group Space?

Try Insight Writing for yourself first with our free taster meditation.

Insight Writing is a practice to help you uncover your unique creative voice.