Hello and welcome! I have anxiety issues as well that increase during the holidays. Hold tight as we are on the downstretch now!
Remember how alcohol made everything much worse? I'm over a year now and staying sober during the holidays helped cement my sobriety.
If you feel you need to check in somewhere in order not to drink then do it. Helping yourself is a good thing. Eat a gallon of ice cream, jump up and down, do somersaults outside, read here all day long, whatever works! What other tools have you used during these 7 months?
You can do this!