All The Love You Carry - book

by Charis Ed From Charis Ed — oncology RN and poet. By day, she administers chemotherapy to patients facing the hardest chapters of their lives. By night, she writes about love. The combination gives her poetry a weight and clarity that only comes from someone who has watched what people carry, what they give away, and what remains. All the love you have ever felt is still inside you. This book is about learning to recognize it. "All The Love You Carry" is a 306-page collection of poetry and prose structured in three movements, each devoted to a different face of love. The first honors love when it arrives — the wonder of it, the way it changes you, the fullness of being known by another person. The second moves through the pain of love lost — the grief of an ending, the slow work of growing around what remains, the discovery that loss does not diminish what was real. The third turns inward — toward self-love not as a destination you arrive at after healing, but as the foundation that was always already there.