Kara Haupt | Making (up) a life.

Block is by women — about work, creative block, and how we make.

By Danielle Sullivan of Wild Ones and Kara Haupt of Babe Vibes. Featuring Fariha Róisín, Maria Ines Gul, Chelsey Dyer, Vanessa Willoughby, Kanda Mbenza-Ngoma, Mei Ratz, Robyn Kanner, Sohaila Adela, and Sarah Versprille.

“I was (more) insecure. I think I was scared of myself and my lack, and my sadness then too. Now I am still insecure, but I seem to be doing a better job of letting my insecurities tag along for the ride, like a weird sad little sister, to figure themselves out with me. There’s this Jenny Holzer line about playing your insecurities like a piano — I am trying to do that. I am trying to honor them. These are the things that scare me and have really hurt me, and they keep me from like, manifesting my best life or whatever. But insecurities don’t come from nowhere, so I honor their existence with kindness. I’m getting better at figuring out how to feel safe while simultaneously being “too much” and a little immature (my age?). It’s difficult, though, because it is easy to disguise my insecurity with cruelty and unkindness toward others, and to myself.”

Kara Haupt of Babe Vibes (Portland, Oregon)