Sheryl Sandberg: Grieving publicly on Facebook 'made huge difference'

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said sharing her painful experience of losing husband Dave Goldberg on Facebook actually helped the grieving process in an interview on Wednesday with Savannah Guthrie on the Today Show.

Sandberg, who says she wasn't sure initially if she should post publicly about the death of Goldberg, said "you feel not alone" during a "pretty isolating thing to live through." Goldberg, 47, died unexpectedly on May 1.

"As I look to the new year, and my children and I have worked so hard to rebuild our lives and find happiness and joy and gratitude again, I think the support of strangers and our friends made a huge difference," Sandberg said. "I always loved Facebook's mission, but now I feel even closer to it in, I think, a much deeper and more profound way."

She decided to open up about how she was feeling on the 30th day of his death via a touching Facebook post.

"I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning. These past thirty days, I have spent many of my moments lost in that void. And I know that many future moments will be consumed by the vast emptiness as well. But when I can, I want to choose life and meaning,"  the 'Lean In' author wrote.