Laurien Webb

Mam of 2 | Mental Health Advocate | Senior Campaigns Manager | Lover of Coffee, Wine, Walking & Music | Stay close to people who feel like sunshine ☀️

[m @poetcinematic]

love story, episode 6: the wedding 🤍

[IPO Education @IPOeducation]

NEW STUDENT GUIDE: Protecting Your Creativity

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✅ Real stories (GCSE project → patent owner)
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[Laurien Webb @WebbLaurien]

Absolutely bloody balling at @LewisCapaldi new song Survive. What a song 💚 #Glastonbury2025 #glastonbury

[IPO Education @IPOeducation]

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[Laurien Webb @WebbLaurien]

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[YoungMinds @YoungMindsUK]

For any parent living with a teen and struggling, this is worth a read. It’s a letter written by Gretchen L. Schmelzer, a child psychologist, from a teenager's viewpoint, voicing what they are unable to say to their parent.

Dear Parent,

This is the letter that I wish I could write.

This fight we are in right now. I need it. I need this fight. I can’t tell you this because I don’t have the language for it and it wouldn’t make sense anyway. But I need this fight. Badly. I need to hate you right now and I need you to survive it. I need you to survive my hating you and you hating me. I need this fight even though I hate it too. It doesn’t matter what this fight is even about: curfew, homework, laundry, my messy room, going out, staying in, leaving, not leaving, boyfriend, girlfriend, no friends, bad friends. It doesn’t matter. I need to fight you on it and I need you to fight me back.

I desperately need you to hold the other end of the rope. To hang on tightly while I thrash on the other end—while I find the handholds and footholds in this new world I feel like I am in. I used to know who I was, who you were, who we were. But right now I don’t. Right now I am looking for my edges and I can sometimes only find them when I am pulling on you. When I push everything I used to know to its edge. Then I feel like I exist and for a minute I can breathe. I know you long for the sweeter kid that I was. I know this because I long for that kid too, and some of that longing is what is so painful for me right now.

I need this fight and I need to see that no matter how bad or big my feelings are—they won’t destroy you or me. I need you to love me even at my worst, even when it looks like I don’t love you. I need you to love yourself and me for the both of us right now. I know it sucks to be disliked and labeled the bad guy. I feel the same way on the inside, but I need you to tolerate it and get other grownups to help you. Because I can’t right now. If you want to get all of your grown-up friends together and have a ‘surviving-your-teenager-support-group-rage-fest’ that’s fine with me. Or talk about me behind my back–I don’t care. Just don’t give up on me. Don’t give up on this fight. I need it.

This is the fight that will teach me that my shadow is not bigger than my light. This is the fight that will teach me that bad feelings don’t mean the end of a relationship. This is the fight that will teach me how to listen to myself, even when it might disappoint others.

And this particular fight will end. Like any storm, it will blow over. And I will forget and you will forget. And then it will come back. And I will need you to hang on to the rope again. I will need this over and over for years.

I know there is nothing inherently satisfying in this job for you. I know I will likely never thank you for it or even acknowledge your side of it. In fact I will probably criticize you for all this hard work. It will seem like nothing you do will be enough. And yet, I am relying entirely on your ability to stay in this fight. No matter how much I argue. No matter how much I sulk. No matter how silent I get.

Please hang on to the other end of the rope. And know that you are doing the most important job that anyone could possibly be doing for me right now.

Love, Your Teenager

[Laurien Webb @WebbLaurien]

I will never for the life of me understand why @tfwrail only ever put two carriages on from Ebbw Vale to Cardiff. Making public transport miserable for all. #transportforwales

[Laurien Webb @WebbLaurien]

@xjxnxjxn @MartinWebb_44 literally tears rolling down my face 😂

[Laurien Webb @WebbLaurien]

@SportsDirect_CS Great, thank you.

[Laurien Webb @WebbLaurien]

@SportsDirect_CS Hi, I have been trying to find a contact number for the Commercial Street Newport store to make a formal complaint about the store manager. Please can you get back to me with details on how to contact the store as the number on the website isn’t recognised.

[Laurien Webb @WebbLaurien]

@SportsDirect_CS The number you have for the store on the website is saying that it is not recognised. How else am I supposed to contact who I need to speak to?

[IPO Education @IPOeducation]

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[Laurien Webb @WebbLaurien]

“If it’s possible for a 6 ft man to look 4ft tall”

10 minutes in to #MyWifeMyAbuser on Netflix and that sentence encapsulates it all. Horrific.

[Laurien Webb @WebbLaurien]

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[IPO Education @IPOeducation]

We have joined forces with @KidsInventStuff and @TaskmasterEdu to launch an exciting invention competition for children aged 4 to 11 nationwide!

We are looking forward to seeing what bright young minds across the UK #InventForAlex

[Cooper @Cooperstreaming]

I saw a guy on TikTok say you can't "mental health" your way out of accountability, and I want to scream it from the rooftops.

Mental health issues don't give you free reign to hurt people and not take responsibility.

[Laurien Webb @WebbLaurien]

How I feel moving today after walking 7 miles mainly uphill yesterday 😂

[Laurien Webb @WebbLaurien]

@TaraBull808 @MartinWebb_44

[Laurien Webb @WebbLaurien]

Best #readingfestival set I I’ve seen @blink182 🙌🏼👏🏼

[Laurien Webb @WebbLaurien]

@MartinWebb_44 36 minutes..,hang in there! 😂