Sheinelle Jones shared a heartfelt message of gratitude for the outpouring of support she received during her first week back on TODAY.

The TODAY co-host thanked everyone for their kind words and messages in a video she posted to Instagram on Sept. 12. She also reflected on some of the emotional moments she experienced this week while going back to work after husband Uche Ojeh died at 45 of brain cancer in May.

“A note from me, to you,” she captioned the video.

“I just wanted to thank you,” she said. “I just want you to know that I read everything and all of your comments. You pray for me, and I’m praying for you. I really underestimated the amount of stuff that we’re all holding, so thank you for holding mine with care.

“I’m saying thank you on behalf of myself and the kids,” the mother of three added. “I know they see it. They’re old enough now, they’re on social, and you guys have been so kind to me and to them and I love you for that. I hope you have a great weekend and thank you for holding me up this week.”

Fans were touched by her message.

“You are such a brave and beautiful soul, Sheinelle. Please know that,” one commented.

“You are so amazing!!! One minute one second one day at a time! I am rooting for you!!!” another wrote.

Sheinelle was also appreciative of people opening up about their own stories of loss and how they dealt with the grief.

“I am so thankful, for so many of you have shared your ups and your downs with me in the wake of me sharing my journey. I will tell you, this week has been so overwhelmingly kind in the best of ways, and anything I gave in that interview in the last days, you guys have just given it back to me,” she said in reference to her emotional interview with Savannah Guthrie, which aired on Sept. 5.

“If I picture a cup, it’s just overflowing more than I could’ve ever imagined, truly,” she continued. “And it’s just what keeps me going. I will tell you, it hasn’t been easy.”

Sheinelle then spoke about little heartbreaking reminders that the man she loved since they attended Northwestern University is gone.

“The job itself is what I’ve done for decades. It’s the parts that you don’t see, right? So I’ll just share with you. The first morning when I got up on Monday, I’m tip-toeing around in the dark, and then I’m like, ‘Oh wait, you’re not here. Guess I can turn the light on,’” she said.

“I’ve been tip-toeing in the dark in the mornings, waking up to the moon for years, for decades,” she added. “It was tough, that realization — something I couldn’t prepare myself for. And I guess I’ll turn the light on, guess I’ll turn on some music. It’s weird, even now.”

She also shared a memory of spontaneously meeting Uche at a museum one day after work. She recalled him waiting for her in a suit with a beaming smile, excited to show her an exhibit. The two then had croissants and tea at a café.

“I found myself passing by that museum here in New York City after the show, and I just started crying,” she said about this week. “I was like, ‘Well, those impromptu calls, I’ll never get one of those again.’ And then I’m crying on the way home.”

Sheinelle also opened up about the experience of returning to TODAY.

“I love doing the show, and I’m relieved that I love doing it,” she said. “It makes me happy. I love being with my friends, I love the guests that come on, I just love it so much. It’s kind of like my happy place more than I realized even.”

She then added that she did struggle once the workday ended.

“When the show was over it’s like, ‘Oh yeah, OK, this is it. This is my reality, isn’t it?’” she said. “It’s just a constant wave.”

But she concluded with a message of hope.

“I’ll end by saying I’ll continue to fight for my joy because that seems like the best way I know how to put it,” she said. “But I just want you to know I long to get to the place where I don’t have to fight for my joy. That I can just wake up, and I can just be, because for so long that was my natural baseline, was just, I wake up easy. It doesn’t feel like a fight.

“So it’s still a fight, and I long for the day it doesn’t feel that way,” she added. “I don’t know if it it’ll happen, but that’s how I feel.”