Angela Gevaudan | Wounded Warriors Canada

Angela Gevaudan, WWC Ambassador, Greater Sudbury

A sensitive and intuitive soul, Angela has a heightened awareness of her experiences and the experiences of others. Her lived experience with trauma is rooted in intergenerational trauma, continued through her childhood and was impactful to the point of a post traumatic stress injury following a traumatic loss.

As a former 911 communicator/dispatcher, she was quite impacted both professionally and personally by the loss of her late husband and their two colleagues and friends who were all assassinated in the line of duty on June 4, 2014. The more she learns about trauma, the more she realizes how it has shaped her way of being in so many ways. That her need to feel safe often takes priority in any given situation and she continues to work towards feeling safe within herself. Through her post traumatic stress injury, she’s been able to learn a lot from her peers and various health practitioners. The symptoms she’s experienced with this injury have been and can be scary at times. Knowing how difficult it can be, and needing to understand this injury for herself has also driven her to try and be helpful to other first responders with injuries, to surviving families and to advocate for the health and safety of those who serve our communities.

In recognizing her own need for help with her traumatic grief and with the intention to honour the experiences of her fellow surviving spouses – she was able to contribute to the development of the Wounded Warriors Canada Surviving Spouse Program. She hopes that with the work she does, she is able to honour the gift of her Mi’kmaw spirit name. “As I connect with the spirit of my name, White Eagle Dove, I understand that this gift is what I must strive to live up to and continuously choose to work towards. That is – to have the courage to connect to that which is pure within me, within all of us. To have the strength of the seer, the warrior in order to carry prayers to the creator. To find inner peace within myself – in all ways and with all things, so that others may also feel invited to find peace within themselves.”

Angela is grateful beyond words to have had the privilege to contribute to and participate in the first delivery of the SSP. She is both grateful and relieved to know that her fellow surviving spouses will have the opportunity to explore their traumatic grief safely and with the appropriate support.

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