Take a Brick Out of the Wall That Stops You From Your BIG Dream

We spend our lives building walls around ourselves,trying to get to know who we are and mixing more mortar while insulating ourselves from the people who are waiting outside for the gates of our hearts to open up.
Some of us take a long time to allow the walls to come down, but when they do...
I grew up in a family of 12 kids ("Cheaper by the dozen", my dad would chuckle, "It's a lie!")
I found that I developed into the person that my brothers and sisters perceived and created me to be. And somehow I lost myself along the way, bit by bit.
A year ago I started getting tired of looking at people over the top of the wall. So I began the journey of my lifetime with the first step and have been walking blindly down the path of my life.
I have the same life that so many others have lived: growing up without knowing that dreams can come true, marrying a man who showed up for the wedding but not for the marriage - and verbal abuse rears its ugly head after a couple of years and gets progressively worse - and I put up with it!, 30+ years of compulsive overeating and a daughter in an eating disorders clinic; not to mention DUI's running rampant among my siblings, and multiple eating disorders among my sisters. On top of all of that a gaggle of family members that live life among themselves and have ostracized me, the 'black sheep of the family', the 'different' one.
As I moved away from my siblings, divorced the man who beat up my esteem and 'thought' I had left the past behind. I started to find out who I am. Oh, not without pain.
And then I got it...everything I had gone through was to help others overcome their walls, fix the scrapes from their brick scrapes and teach them how to fall madly in love with themselves - the way that I learned to find, accept and love the woman that I was created to be.
Brick by brick, the pain subsided and my pain became my power. Once the lessons are extracted from experiences, the pain is gone, and you have a story, a lesson to pass on. Your life is used to make others lives better...and that makes every hurt worth the pain.
How many bricks do you have up? Are you tired of trying to see outside of the wall that you have built? Are you ready to break through your wall, one brick at a time, so yu can run free...wherever you want, being you, magnified?
What are you waiting for?