Woman's Weekly

Healing through MUSIC

When Dr Tina Blaber had a breakdown in 2005, partly due to having a hysterectomy at 30, which triggered an early menopause, she knew she had to make changes. She looked back to her childhood and realised that her early love of music had lain dormant for many years. Tina began a journey that would not only transform her life, but would lead to her helping many others in the most unexpected way, through the not-for-profit community group Playing for Cake.

‘In the 1990s, no one talked about the menopause’

‘I left home at 17,

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