By Charles Barnard, founder of Success Institutes. Seventeen year old Hailey was known among her peers as cheerful, smart, and driven. She captained the debate team, volunteered at a local shelter, and maintained a 4.0 GPA. But during her senior year, Hailey’s...

By Charles Barnard, founder of Success Institutes. Tyler was only seventeen. A top student, varsity athlete, and beloved by teachers, he had a future that looked bright from every angle. One Tuesday morning, Tyler’s mother found him unresponsive in his bedroom. The autopsy...

By Charles Barnard, founder of Success Institutes. Claire stood at the edge of the crowded cafeteria, her tray balanced precariously in her trembling hands. The noise (laughing, shouting, the scrape of plastic chairs on tile) pressed in around her. She scanned the...

By Charles Barnard, founder of Success Institutes. Oliver sat at his desk, pencil trembling between his fingers... The once familiar lines of the algebra equation swimming before his eyes like blurred ink on wet paper. His teacher’s voice echoed in the background,...

By Charles Barnard, founder of Success Institutes. Jake was not one to sit still. He had a talent for finding trouble the way a bloodhound finds a scent, quick, instinctive, and with remarkable consistency. If there was a hallway to sprint down,...

By Charles Barnard, founder of Success Institutes. Emily had always been the responsible one. The one teachers trusted to lead group projects, the one her friends turned to for advice, and the one her parents never worried about. She was the girl...

By Charles Barnard, founder of Success Institutes. Lily’s Story: When the Screens Turn Dark It was a cold Wednesday morning when Lily first saw the post. She had just sat down in homeroom, her phone buzzing in her hand. Her best friend, Olivia,...

By Charles Barnard, founder of Success Institutes. Emma stared at the blank screen of her laptop, her fingers trembling over the keyboard. It was past midnight, and her eyes burned from hours of scrolling through social media. "Why does everyone else have...

By Charles Barnard, founder of Success Institutes. “A culture that allows the concept of ‘safety’ to creep so far that it equates emotional discomfort with physical danger is a culture that encourages people to systematically protect one another from the...

By Charles Barnard, founder of Success Institutes. Jimmy... The alarm went off. A deep sigh, and the first words to enter his mind were, “Good God, its morning already.” He felt tempted to throw his phone out the window rather than just hit...