Sheryl Sandberg has penned an emotional post about finding peace and being grateful after losing her husband, Dave, in May.
Sandberg, who is the COO of Facebook, made the emotional admission on Thanksgiving, writing that she once believed gratitude was “beyond her grasp”.
“After the loss of my husband Dave Goldberg, there were days when gratitude seemed beyond my grasp. But as the months have gone by, I’ve realized that I still have so much to be grateful for,” wrote Sheryl.
“This Thanksgiving, I want to thank my family and friends who have supported and comforted me and my children as we have recovered from grief, regained our smiles and the ability to laugh, and rediscovered all that we have to be grateful for,” she wrote.
“I also appreciate the many strangers who have reached out and shared their stories of tragedy, resilience, and rebirth. And I want to say a special thank you to the team at Kara Grief Counseling in Palo Alto who did so much to help move us forward.”
“On this day of thanks, I hope that everyone out there can find something worthy of gratitude. Loss and recovery are an inevitable part of being human, and I realize more and more that these experiences which take so much from us also give us the ability to be grateful on a deeper level,” she wrote.
Sheryl’s husband, Dave, a American businessman, died in May, 2015, after falling off a treadmill in Mexico.
