treatment in cancer

[Guest guest]

Hi Linda

< What do you do Helen?>

I've been an aromatherapist for 14 years. A colleague and I started the

Association

of Aromatherapists Southern Africa in 1991; at that time we and others set up a

volunteer system working at Groote Schuur hospital with the leukemia patients

and

also at the hospice, where members have to undergo the hospice training

programme.

This volunteer system has now expanded to treat cerebral palsy children, HIV+

children, babies, and adults; policemen, mentally challenged people, other

hospices

and so on. My colleague and I also had a school for 9 years and taught

aromatherapy

professionally. Now I occasionally teach short introductory courses. I still

have

my practice and see people in the evenings and at weekends, but also work

full-time

now for a holistic/alternative living magazine (aromatherapy isn't a big

money-spinner!). So if someone asks me what I do, I'm an aromatherapist first

and

foremost - only later do I remember that 9-5 job!

Helen in Cape Town