Relationships: Heartbroken by her father’s suicide, and gut-wrentched when her mother tried to force her into marriage, Traiana’s relationships in her homeland were miserable. That all changes when she falls in love with Adam and bears two children. She is a good, loving wife to Adam and a wonderful mom to Kaleeva and Tojo. She develops close relationships with friends, the angels, and mentors/teachers. Her relationship with Adam becomes increasingly strained as he far too often chooses work over his family. While supportive of his career goals, she comes close to divorcing him when he repeatedly chooses career over family. Her escape is to bury herself in services dedicated to helping those in need. She volunteers at Tezhouse Services for the Underserved (TSU) where she is extremely well liked and respected and exhibits uncommon skills in raising funds for outreach into the poor and lost members of society.

Conflicts: Tariana longs for Adam to spend more time at home and wants him to realize that seeking material things is not his true purpose of life. She deals with this conflict at first by holding in her feelings, then turns to alcohol, and ultimately confronts her husband – demanding change or else divorce. When he refuses, her struggles with alcohol increase. It is Tariana who must raise the children, with conflicts in that role growing with each passing year. She is ‘hit-on’  by a TSU friend/executive, presenting yet another conflict.

Eventually she comes to accept that Adam is not the 100% guilty party in their marriage, and that she too must change. She experiences first hand the tensions her husband faces in each work challenge, and joins forces with him to combat corruption and  false accusations. She eventually processes the trauma in her past, and this leads to a renewal of her love affair with Adam – and that leads to the couple finding common purpose in selfless service to others.

Goals & Motivations: Tariana wants her life with Adam to be magical, purposeful, and a source of inner joy. She wants to be the best possible wife and mother in the short-term. Mid-term she wants to make a positive impact at TSU. Long-term she wants to transform her marriage into a selfless mission together with Adam to use their talents to help others.

She came from a horrible life with her birth-family. Her actions are guided by a passion to help others avoid such a life. She wants her life with Adam to be magical, purposeful, and a source of inner joy. She wants to help in any way she can to preserve and restore/grow her love affair with Adam. And to be there always for Tojo and Kaleeva. She will do anything to help her husband and children. Beyond the homefront, she is motivated by a passion to help those in need – driven by her desire to help others overcome the poverty and difficulties of her past life.

Throughout, her primary personal goal is to guide Adam to find balance between family and career. Professionally, she wants to make her mark in reaching out to the poor and underserved – building health care complexes, hospitals, and rehabilitation facilities, especially in underserved neighborhoods. She invites Adam to volunteer and apply TIPDI in partnership at these establishments. She is delighted when he accepts.

While offered unexpectedly, she accepts the role of CEO at TSU – believing this will enable her to raise the funds needed to make a permanent difference. 

Her deep love for Adam drives her to save their marriage – as together they discover their true purpose as a couple.

Tari at TSU – serving the needy

Earlier, Tari faces her greatest challenge as a caregiver/nurse and eventually CEO at TSU on medical missions to remote villages – visiting the underserved of Taoland. She is determined to bring healthcare to those who have never seen a doctor.

Some villages are cut off from modern technology, and she arrives to find families living in simple huts, their health needs unmet for generations. Communicating with the locals is a challenge, and she must rely on interpreters and learn basic phrases in their dialects. She witnesses the villagers’ daily struggles – barefoot children fetching water, elderly women tilling rocky soil, people dying who could have been saved.

Some villagers hold deep-rooted beliefs in traditional healers and spiritual rituals. While respecting their cultures, Tari must gently educate them about evidence-based medicine. She works tirelessly, often without rest. She battles exhaustion, yet her determination never wavers. 

She establishes free clinics throughout the land founded – and trains local healthcare providers. But these facilities have minimal supplies: outdated medications, a single stethoscope, and no electricity. She must improvise and relies on her clinical instincts. 

Her ingenuity blossoms as she stitches wounds with fishing line and diagnoses ailments by candlelight. She administers vaccines, and teaches hygiene practices. She holds mothers’ hands during childbirth, wipes tears of loss, and celebrates – finding that healing transcends language – and that a smile, a touch, a shared meal all matter. She holds dying children, comforts grieving parents, and fights back tears.

Adam, while consumed with his own career, helps her with inventions – like a portable solar-powered AI enabled diagnostic kit. But for the most part, early on,  he is disinterested in her work.

Witnessing preventable suffering weighed heavily on her. Tari’s experience transforms her, reinforcing her belief that medicine must transcend borders, languages, cultures, and hardships. She becomes increasingly driven to heal hearts and minds and serve humanity – one patient at a time. Their smiles,  laughter, and their pains become etched into her heart.

Her most rewarding moment as a caregiver occurs  in the crimson glow of a Tao sunset. As the Tao sun dips low, Tari realizes that healing transcends all barriers. Compassion bridges chasms. And a single life saved echoes through eternity.