This Dating Psychologist Just Welcomed Her First Baby at 50

Jackie Glaser was living her dream. The Australian Jew, who was born in Montreal but raised in Sydney, was the resident psychologist at Australia’s “Today Show,” where she was giving advice in front of an audience of one million viewers every single week.

During this time, her brother was becoming religious and he invited Jackie to a Shabbat dinner. It would be a major turning point in her life.

“I had this crazy experience,” she said. “Afterwards, when I drove home, I burst into tears for no reason. It wasn’t sadness. I didn’t know what it was. The same thing then happened after I was coming home from another dinner. I said, ‘Maybe I should look into this.’

“It was a yearning I didn’t realize I had, but on some level, my soul recognized what was going on there,” she said.

Jackie’s brother went to Aish in Jerusalem, and she visited him while he was there.

“I had a lot of opinions and I did not want to become religious,” she said.

But something inside her was yearning for deeper meaning. So, she followed that feeling.

Embracing Her Judaism

At this point, Jackie was 30. She went to Israel and took Aish’s Discovery Program where she asked questions and engaged in debates and was fascinated by Jewish teachings.

“I found the roots of psychology in Torah,” she said. “They were all there.”

She stumbled into Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen’s class on self-development. “He taught us that the things we struggle with the most are the corrections we are meant to make in this lifetime,” Jackie said. “They make us our greatest self.”

She also discovered the power of connecting with God in your everyday life.

“I began to see that things that happened were by design and not coincidence or random. I started to see God in my day-to-day life.”

Jackie decided to stay in Israel and keep learning about Judaism. She took classes at Neve Yerushalayim, slowly becoming observant. Eventually she became a teacher there.

Throughout all this, she was dating – she wanted to get married and have children. But it wasn’t so simple.

She dated for the next 14 years, but to no avail. She felt less than, like she wasn’t complete without marriage. She also didn’t want to accept her situation.

One day, she decided to shift her attitude towards it.

“I totally surrendered to my situation,” she said. “I had an internal shift spiritually. The next day, the man who would become my husband was suggested to me.”

Today, Jackie, now 50, is happily married to her husband, Aaron, and is a loving stepmom to his two daughters. Additionally, the couple just had their first child in January of 2025 – a girl named Ariella.

When announcing the news on Instagram, Jackie wrote, “My journey isn’t about manifesting—it’s about becoming a vessel to receive life’s blessings.”

Giving Back to the Singles Community

When Jackie was in despair over not finding her match, she made a deal with God.

“I told Him, ‘If you get me married, I will help singles,’” she said.

She has kept her promise. Jackie works with singles as a dating psychologist and coach. The number one thing she wants them to understand is that they are single by design and not by punishment. There is nothing wrong with them.

“Singles feel so bad about themselves,” she said. “Everyone feels like they are broken when they are dating. The system beats them down further.”

As a dating psychologist, she gets to the root of what is standing in the way for singles and shows them that they are worthy, loveable, and good.

“You don’t need marriage to make you feel this,” she said. “You have to learn to date from your higher self.”

Seeing All Her Blessings

As a new mom of a beautiful newborn, with a loving husband and a career she enjoys, Jackie is on the top of the world. But she sees that on her journey there, she went through a lot of pain.

Our miracle baby

“My dad died young, and then my mom got sick,” she said. “I was single for 14 years. These key things happened to me, and it was made apparent that my pain was an avenue to help people and give them hope, strength, and inspiration.”

When Jackie posted about Ariella, her miracle baby at 50, she received tons of touching messages.

“One person told me she started bawling in the middle of the supermarket,” Jackie said. “Others said, ‘I’m 46’ or ‘I’m 48, and you have given me so much hope.’ Ariella was born on the seventh night of Hanukkah, and she lit up so many people.”

“Even though there are times of darkness that we all experience,” Jackie said, “I am in absolute awe and wonder of God unfolding my life like a tapestry.”

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