355: The Secret to Raising Resilient, Emotionally Healthy Children | Dr. Billy Garvey
Be Well by Kelly Leveque
Kelly Leveque
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I sit down with Dr. Billy Garvey, a developmental pediatrician with over 20 years of experience helping children and families navigate growth, resilience, and mental health. Dr. Garvey is also the author of Ten Things I Wish You Knew About Your Child’s Mental Health, Australia’s #1 parenting book, where he breaks down the complexities of child development in a way that every parent can apply in daily life.
We explore the influence of film and pop culture on kids, the difference between time out and time in parenting, and how childhood trauma impacts both behavior and long-term health. Dr. Garvey shares practical tools for navigating tough parenting moments, supporting anxious or “angry” children, and teaching kids emotional regulation, morals, and manners.
Topics Discussed:
→ What is the best way to support an anxious child?
→ How does childhood trauma affect mental health?
→ What is the difference between time out and time in?
→ How can parents teach kids emotional regulation?
→ What does toxic masculinity look like in children?
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Timestamps:
→ 00:00:00 - Introduction
→ 00:03:06 - Emotional impact of movies
→ 00:08:51 - Time out vs time in parenting
→ 00:10:45 - Authoritarian parenting styles
→ 00:16:26 - Dr. Garvey’s childhood
→ 00:21:29 - Developmental pediatrics
→ 00:26:34 - Handling tough parenting moments
→ 00:31:05 - Helping kids feel safe, loved, celebrated
→ 00:34:14 - Men’s mental health, anxiety, & crying
→ 00:36:05 - Suicide, self harm + mental health
→ 00:41:38 - Strategies to support your kids
→ 00:47:14 - How to create a safe space
→ 00:54:57 - The problem with toxic gratitude
→ 00:58:13 - Paths to self healing
→ 01:01:09 - Addressing toxic masculinity
→ 01:05:13 - Modeling healthy intimacy
→ 01:11:05 - Guiding autonomy in children
→ 01:14:35 - Teaching kids emotional regulation
→ 01:25:16 - Teaching morals & manners
→ 01:27:30 - Supporting anxious or “angry” children
Check Out Billy:
→ IG: @drbillygarvey; @guidinggrowingminds; @popcultureparenting
→ Book: Ten Things I Wish You Knew About Your Child’s Health
→ Website: www.guideyourgrowingminds.com
→ Podcast:
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| 0:00.0 | a feature of clinical anxiety is anger. Yeah. And a lot of angry men are actually anxious little |
| 0:06.9 | boys and they just haven't learned to show fear. And we know that that unhealthy masculinity |
| 0:14.6 | that harms women, but it also harms men. And we need to really challenge that and push back against it because |
| 0:22.6 | there's still boys coming up that have that belief that you shouldn't show emotions, only anger. |
| 0:28.7 | You're listening to Be Well by Kelly Leveck. |
| 0:33.9 | Dr. Billy Garvey is a developmental pediatrician with over 20 years experience working with children. |
| 0:39.4 | He is a senior specialist at one of the largest tertiary pediatric hospitals in the world |
| 0:44.8 | where he sees families, trains clinicians, and other professionals working with children |
| 0:48.6 | and conducts research in child development and mental health. |
| 0:52.2 | He is also the founder of guiding growing minds, a social |
| 0:55.5 | enterprise that aims to give all children the opportunity to reach their potential and live |
| 0:59.7 | rich and meaningful lives. The Pop Culture Parenting Podcast is a part of this vision. He has also |
| 1:05.2 | written a book called 10 Things I Wish I knew about your Child's Mental Health, which is Australian's |
| 1:10.7 | number one parenting |
| 1:11.7 | title and was shortlisted for the A-B-I-A general non-fiction book of the year. |
| 1:18.9 | Billy Garvey. |
| 1:20.5 | Hi, Kelly. |
| 1:22.2 | Man, oh man, I was looking forward to this interview. |
| 1:25.0 | We have mutual friends in common, and then I went down a rabbit |
| 1:28.0 | hole of other interviews you've done and your childhood and building your practice and then |
| 1:34.3 | connecting with people through pop culture and movies. And I just think you're one, so creative, |
| 1:40.4 | and you have such a big heart for our youth. And I was just, you know, as a mom of three boys, you kind of get into the nitty-gritty on masculinity. And I was like, that's it. Dr. Billy Garvey, come, when you come to California, come be on the show. And here you are. Thank you for being here. Well, yeah, thank you for having me. I've been really excited for it too, Kelly. And yeah, it's, I don't know, it's creative. |
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