It helps to tackle these things separately. You can't learn how to cope with anxiety while you're still drinking because you need to find a different solution. The problem is that if you ever get to a point where you feel your anxiety is under control and you decide to start drinking again your brain won't forget how to process the amount you were previously drinking, which will mean you will quickly be back where you started, which may trigger some anxiety... and the whole vicious cycle starts again. These things don't exist in a vacuum, they feed off one another. And although we can really on reasonably tackle one thing at a time we have to be careful about how they effect one another x