Cathy Cassani Adams, LCSW
Author, social worker, co-host of the Zen Parenting Radio podcast, and co-creator of the Zen Parenting Conference
Cathy Cassani Adams, LCSW is a self-awareness educator focused on parenting and the personal empowerment of women and young girls.
For ten tears, Adams and her husband Todd have co-hosted the Zen Parenting Radio podcast, a top-ten kids and family podcast on iTunes, and they are the creators of the Zen Parenting Conference held in Chicago. Adams is the author of The Self-Aware Parent (2009), The Self-Aware Parent Two (2011), and Living What You Want Your Kids to Learn: The Power of Self-Aware Parenting (2014). Her most recent book, Zen Parenting: Caring for Ourselves and Our Children in an Unpredictable World, will be published in 2022.
Adams is a social worker, a former elementary school teacher from a family of educators, and a yoga teacher. She is a frequent guest on WGN Radio and she has been featured in Parents, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Ebony, Crain’s Chicago Business, and Today’s Chicago Woman.

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Zen Parenting: Caring for Ourselves and Our Children in an Unpredictable World
Author, social worker, co-host of the Zen Parenting Radio podcast, and co-creator of the Zen Parenting Conference
Maru Torres-Gregory, JD, Ph.D., LMFT
Couples and family therapist and faculty member of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program atThe Family Institute at Northwestern University