📰 Mirror Me Blog Series: Portmeirion Scandal — Part IV
🧠Psychological Profile: “The Controller Who Lost Control”
“Dominique was the Controller—yet couldn’t control her emotions, her professionalism, or the truth unraveling around her.”
Let’s unpack that…
🌀 The Irony of the Title:
A Controller is meant to keep order. To protect the financial integrity of a company. But in this case, we witnessed:
Disregard for compliance
Emotionally reactive communication
Loss of team trust
Unraveling morale and retention
She didn’t control the chaos.
She became the chaos.
🎠Psychological Traits of a Narcissistic Controller:
🔹 Control = Safety
Many controllers mask deep insecurity through micromanagement. When someone speaks truth to power, it threatens their sense of order.
🔹 Power Over People, Not Systems
True leadership manages systems and supports people. Faux leadership tries to control people and ignores broken systems. That’s what we saw here.
🔹 Projection & Deflection
Instead of responding with professionalism, she mirrored her own discomfort back onto me — framing my truth as toxicity.
🧬 Archetype Breakdown:
Dominique’s behavior aligns with the Shadow Queen archetype:
Wants to rule with invisible strings
Hates to be questioned
Punishes those who disrupt her illusion of control
Seeks loyalty through fear, not respect
But here’s the truth:
Real leaders aren’t threatened by integrity — they rise with it.