“It’s exciting that we’re finally getting our chance,” Henderson tells BBC Sport Scotland. “We want to show everyone at home that we could have been deserving of the opportunity before now.
“It’s been tough to get excited because I’ve just been in survival mode to just like keep going, keep going, keep going. But I was sitting on the plane and I was like, wow, I actually now feel excited.
“It’s basically been the best three months of my life so it’s just trying to like soak all of that up and appreciate it while you’re in the moment.”
While Scotland are not the only nation to field different teams from the ones that competed in Cortina, the likes of Denmark, Italy, China and Japan will all send their Olympics rinks.
Henderson and her group are ranked somewhere in the lower-half of the 13 countries but are confident that they can spring a few surprises and potentially even emulate the sixth-place finish achieved by Rebecca Morrison 12 months ago.
And, with decisions to be made in the coming months on the team for the next Olympic cycle, they are viewing this as a chance to lay down a marker.
“We obviously aren’t sure what the rest of the girls from the Olympic team are going to do,” Henderson added.
“But to put together a good performance and show that we’re a great unit, that can play great curling, and try and almost cement a place to continue on for the next couple of championships and get to the Olympics as well would be great.”